1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.