Quotes by Jodi Picoult

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Ive got a Don Baylor, J.T. said.California sucks this year.Ralph snickered. I wouldnt use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.

So what do you think the physical effect was?Roman Laughed. Buddy, he said, she was tripping.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

Although you hadnt asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it

A real friend isnt capable of feeling sorry for you.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldnt be the cost of failure for a good friend.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Its never the differences between people that surprise us. Its the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Maybe thats what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that weve wounded the people we are trying to protect.

I wondered about the explorers whod sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven.But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehowI put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Go fuck yourself Judge.Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply dont want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we cant comfortably fit.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isnt always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you cant stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you cant see clearly?