Quotes by Jodi Picoult

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and youve lost yourself.

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and youve done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

[Theres a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. Its silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Sometimes there arent words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

We sit for a few more moments, although theres really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesnt say a word. I will tell it to her.

You dont have to say anything if you dont want to.Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas—a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldnt do it, because youd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Campbell Julia says Dont do this to meDo what?Push me off the same cliff twice

Do you know what its like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until youve got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isnt whay they need?

Hes an egotistical dickhead whos going to chew you up and spit you out; and you have a really awful history of falling for assholes that you ought to run screaming from; and I dont feel like sitting around listening to you try to convince yourself you dont still feel something for Campbell Alexander when, in fact, youve spent the past fifteen years trying to fill in the hole he made inside you.

If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe thats eaten grubs and roots forever if theyre unhappy, and theyll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you dont know theres an alternative, you cant miss it.

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story.

Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

A woman isnt all that different from a bonfire. A fires a beautiful thing, right? Something you cant take your eyes off, when its burning. If you can keep it contained, itll throw light and heat for you. Its only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.