Jodi Picoult quotes

Jodi Picoult is an American author best known for her thought-provoking novels exploring moral dilemmas and family relationships. Her books often tackle complex social issues, such as justice, race, and medical ethics. She is one of the most widely read contemporary novelists, with many of her works adapted into films and television. Here are 640 of her quotes:

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Jodi Picoult

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

Jodi Picoult

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, ... It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Jodi Picoult

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Jodi Picoult

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

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

Jodi Picoult

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Jodi Picoult

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

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

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People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

Jodi Picoult

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

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You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

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The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

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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.

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Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

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I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

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Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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