1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.