Jodi Picoult Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Morality has nothing to do with religion," she says. "You can do the right thing and not believe in God at all.
Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
They can take away my livelihood and my food and" - here his voice hitched - "my grandson. But they can't take away my dreams." His
The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
I kept hoping, silently, that you would want to save her like you hadn't been able to save yourself.
She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.
How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?
Dying of grief is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is not evolutionarily feasible. If grief were that overwhelming, a species would simply be erased.
So that's it?" I say, stunned. "You throw information into someone else's life like a grenade and you walk away before it explodes?
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
You are going to get everything good that's coming to you - not because you beg for it, and not because of what color you are. Because you deserve
I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
I can't say I'm devastated by the way I'm ignored. I guess I have more important things on my mind. The
There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.
If parenting is the box of raisin bran, then real mothers know the ratio of flakes to fun is severely imbalanced.
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.
He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.
In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.
I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
She wondered how it was that she'd never truly studied this statistical symbol before: a figure split in two, a pair of empty circles on either side.
We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.
I woke up with an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, part sweet part sour, it took me days to realize this was simply hope.
They both knew that jealousy could rise like a tide, erasing events that had been scratched into the shore of your memory.
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
That's a little unrealistic, don't you think?
So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out.
So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out.
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.
It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.
No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
Just in case it ... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.
I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.
I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.