1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.