1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

The catch was this: Power always involved a loss of humanity.

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.