Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“At the very bottom of hell, theres no fire, no brimstone, just the utter inability to take action...Is taking away your ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want, the very worst punishment you can imagine?”

“The truth is the truth.”

“With a chronically ill child, there is only so much you can do for your other kids.”

“What if love wasnt the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

“Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful.”

“Its crazy, right? To love someone whos hurt you? Its crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.”

“They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything thats out of alighment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.”

“It was a little like a scar on a polished wooden table--youd try to see the rest of the gleaming surface, but your eyes and your fingers would be drawn to the pitted part, the one thing that kept it from being perfect.”

“There was a fine line between love and hate, you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. Youd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness, one day, to feel like an intrusion.”

“Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover-up coating a zit, because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting, you hadnt completely given up.”

“Im really proud of (”

“You are seeing his comic book about a girl who is in Hell and her father who goes to Hell to bring her back,”

“When you read the art,”

“Part of our job as a writer is to consider how we tell stories, ... This is one way of looking at multiple versions of storytelling. What is also fun about it is all fiction used to be illustrated, so in a way this very revolutionary form of novel is really going back to basics.”

“You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.”

“I think libraries are an important part of the community. If it wasnt for librarians recommending our books to people coming into the library unsure of what to read, where would authors be? I really applaud this community for being so serious about giving to their libraries.”

You dont love someone because theyre perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that theyre not.

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 couldnt be filled?

You know its never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Its 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.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.