1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

She’s not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can’t figure out whether it’s black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we’d rather pretend doesn’t exist.

I’m too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That’s because it’s the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I’m really here.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else’s.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?

I understand better than she’d imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what’s hidden underneath.