1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

Things don't always look as they seem.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.