1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

I have an iron lung, and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets.[...]I have SARS. He's tallying the people I infect. [...]I'm nearsighted. He helps me read the road signs. [...]I'm a recovering alcoholic. The dog gets between me and a beer.[...]I have an irregular heartbeat and he's CPR certified. [...]Color-blind. He tells me when the traffic lights change. [...]He translates for my Spanish-speaking clients.[...]He's a chick magnet.[...]I'm a lawyer. He chases ambulances for me.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

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

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone.