1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

It's been a long time," I reply, when what I really want to do is ask her what she's been doing for the past fifteen years. If she still drinks tea with milk and lemon. If she's happy.

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.

How come I believe in God? I guess its's because some things are too incredible for people to take all the credit." (pg. 350)