1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.