1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

It's been forever.' The words are quiet, hidden against his shoulder.'That's because,' Oliver says, 'you were waiting for me.' He slips aside the sweater again and kisses my collarbone.

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

I glance at the house, dark and empty. "Am I my sister's keeper?" I say. Then I grin at her. "If you feel like waiting, you can come up and see my etchings.

I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time. Lia

I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.