Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”

“When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod”

“I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.”

“We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.”

“The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.”

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“You can miss a person you've never known.”

“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean some...”

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”

“You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at...”

“...maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but according to pure chance. Or just maybe, as random ...”

“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”

“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so ...”

“Better safe than sorry!”

“The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks th...”

“It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.”

“Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

“DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.”