Quotes by Jodi Picoult

If you dont want someone to change your life for you, youve got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

If you dont want somwone to change your life for you, youve got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

...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 and haphazard as our lives seems--maybe thats exactly what the author had in mind.

People ask all the time how Im doing, but the truth is, they dont really want to know.

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping babys eyelash, the span of a childs hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does ones conscience.

Can you fall for someone because youre lazy?

Better safe than sorry!

The thing about a mom is that shes always there. Shes 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 the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around.

It was the first time shed discovered something she really didnt want to find, and she didnt know what to do once shed found it.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didnt even know existed.

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

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what there hiding.

There are skeletons in everyones closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the honor of buying me a drink

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

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

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldnt be.

Polar north cant get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I cant remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.