1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.