1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

[...]You can take the pink hair dye out of the girl, but you never lose those roots."I took another sip of the martini. "You don't know me."At the end of the bar, the other customer lifted his face to Peter Jennings and smiled."Maybe," Seven said, "but neither do you.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right." (pg. 481)

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her.“All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!”“Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.