1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps."Are you," I said. "Then tell me how."You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.

Only the liar knows that he's lying.

How do you know she’s the one for you?...and did you ever notice how, when she’s nervous,she sings? Off-key?You like that?Well, that's the thing. I think her flaws make me love her even more. She’s not perfect, but she’s perfect to me.

There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain."Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?"I blink at him, speechless. Because the world isn't fair, I think, but Jacob already knows that better than most of us.

I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.