1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

I found plain truth very interesting.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.