Quotes by Jodi Picoult

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 Peters shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body.Josies lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. Im glad I wasnt stuck in here alone, she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.

But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didnt a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?

The thing that most people didnt understand, if they werent 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 victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

I would prove to you that being different isnt 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 enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

youre not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

Its the child whos 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.

Heres my question: What age are you when youre in Heaven?

I dont know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. Youd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They dont need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe Ill come back as catnip.

Thats 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 Im headed.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- its because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadnt.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something thats exactly right. (pg. 481)

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?