Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didnt get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth cant someone be healed by happiness?

When Im with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck thats backing up.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life.

It felt like Id been living underground, and for a moment, Id been given this glimpse of the sky. Once youve seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if its stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe hell text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses youve woven, youll never get rid of the stain.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemys dying wish?

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, were still left behind with all the questions they couldnt answer.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

You can always edit a bad page. You cant edit a blank page.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.