1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss.

When this is over, we will go to the rain forest, or the pyramids, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out or to hold something precious in.

24/7 – Once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

You always knew after sh— things happened, who your friends really were.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you're missing one.