1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor.

I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees—people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family.Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all.

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts)

There is a point when a structure fire is raging out of control that you simply have to give it the distance to burn itself out. So you move back to safety, to a hill out of the wind, and you watch the building eat itself alive.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.