1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along the way I must have done something right.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.