1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

That's the thing about the past. It keeps you from having to notice the present.

If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?

As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever, not right now.I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?