1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

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

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.