1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Skin color doesn't make you different," Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only people who ever say that," Raymond replied, "are white.

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.