1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?"I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.

a story will tell itself, when it’s ready

...but I used to think," Josef says quietly, "that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers."(pg 134)

What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.

Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.

When a freedom is taken away from you I suppose you recognize it as a privilege not as a right