1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external...p 7

Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I didn't have to fill in the spaces with random conversation. It was okay to just be with her. She knew that sometimes I needed that - to not have to take care of anyone or anything, to simply exist in my own space, adjacent to hers.

Quem diria que as palavras que nunca chegamos a dizer assentassem tão pesadamente?