1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.