1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Let me guess," Seven said last night. "The first was a rebound. The second was married."How'd you know?"He laughed. "Because you're a cliché.

The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she's pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained.

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. "Congratulations," I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in stars so that she never, ever does to him what I have done to my parents.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.