1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.