1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.