1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.