1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

It’s silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.

That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

You don’t look at another person’s plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.

There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing – light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light.

I know that the first person I kissed won’t be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

That’s why we read fiction, isn’t it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we’re not the only ones?