1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they’d reach forever.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else – with passion and excess.

My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

You didn’t get past something like that, you go through it – and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

I don’t want to make the same mistake twice. I don’t want to tell myself it’s over when it’s not.

I told myself that if I didn’t care, this wouldn’t have hurt so much – surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn’t a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

It doesn’t take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

I’m not saying you did the wrong thing. I’m not even saying it wasn’t something I’d thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn’t the right thing.