1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else’s. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party – a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn’t, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one’s back on it?

I don’t know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.

When you want something bad, you’ll tell yourself a thousand lies.

But that’s what love is, isn’t it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

What if instead of focusing on what you don’t have, you concentrate on what you’ve got?

I know what it’s like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it’s hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.