1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

When she was a little girl, I told her all the fairy tales about love. How it could wake you from death. How it could triumph over evil. How it could make the poor, rich. But today, I am drawing back the curtain, revealing not just pretty stories, but facts. That love can also kill you. That for you to triumph, other people have to be hurt. That the wealth love brings, comes at a staggering cost.

If I hadn't left at that moment, I knew I would have stayed forever.

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison.

The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.

She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians.