“You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.”
— Jodi Picoult“If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”
— Jodi Picoult“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
— Jodi Picoult“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
— Jodi Picoult“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do.”
— Jodi Picoult“You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.”
— Jodi Picoult“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”
— Jodi Picoult“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”
— Jodi Picoult“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”
— Jodi Picoult“Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.”
— Jodi Picoult“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”
— Jodi Picoult“The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.”
— Jodi Picoult“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
— Jodi Picoult“A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
— Jodi Picoult“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”
— Jodi Picoult“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”
— Jodi Picoult“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”
— Jodi Picoult“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
— Jodi Picoult“Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.”
— Jodi Picoult“Oh, darling, that’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.”
— Jodi Picoult“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
— Jodi Picoult“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”
— Jodi Picoult