1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

You get through it, you just never get over it

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.