1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

oh shit, i think. my cheeks are on fire; my heart starts to pound.

In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would not be a far reach for someone to look at my feelings for Jess and assume that, in the context of our relationship as tutor and pupil, I am not in love. I'm just in transference.

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.