Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.”

“There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.”

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

“Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you.”

“The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.”

“Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.”

“Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and...”

“But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest sp...”

“The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape v...”

“I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.”

“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”

“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the ...”

“It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”

“Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?”

“I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.”

“That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself." (pg. 342)”

“Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.”

“if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.”

“When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.”

“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”