1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

It's choice that makes us human.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.