1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.

If you think someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

Everyone is a liar. Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists.p 398

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.