1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

How do you tell someone that you weren’t the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you’d meant the things you’d said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

They don’t like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night – because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you’ve had of something doesn’t match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

The loneliest creature on earth is a whale that has spent more than twenty years calling out for a mate, I read, but whose voice is so different from those of other whales that none of them ever respond.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I’d hurt Rob. Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we’re trying to protect.

You can believe something really hard,? Faith says, ’and still be wrong.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn’t mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.