Jodi PicoultI learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2009). My Sister's Keeper: A Novel, p.41, Simon and Schuster371ReadingSadness
Jodi PicoultLawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2009). Handle with Care: A Novel, … ▶372PoliticsReading
Jodi PicoultIt was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like … ▶372LoveReadingThought
Jodi PicoultSometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't … ▶361LoveThoughtTime
Jodi PicoultBad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly b… ▶372LifePoliticsTime
Jodi PicoultThe best place to cry is on a mother's arms. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2010). House Rules: A Novel, p.248, Simon and Schuster361ReadingSadness
Jodi PicoultIf you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it. ✨ … ▶361LoveReading
Jodi Picoult[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe lat… ▶372Sadness
Jodi PicoultJust when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2007). Perfect Match, p.465, Simon and Schuster372LifeThought
Jodi PicoultIn this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #… ▶372TimeTruth
Jodi PicoultMistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice. 351ReadingThought
Jodi PicoultPeople changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, … ▶373HumanityLoveThought
Jodi PicoultDid you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true? ✨ Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). Between the Lines, p.54, Simon and Schuster373ThoughtTruth
Jodi PicoultOn a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around … ▶373ReadingThought
Jodi PicoultThere should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with you… ▶351LoveReadingSadness
Jodi PicoultWhat if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? ✨ Jodi Picoult (2006). The Tenth Circle: A Novel, p.152, Simon a… ▶351LoveReading
Jodi PicoultLove meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2003). Second Glance, p.458, Simon and Schuster<… ▶373Love
Jodi PicoultMemories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; som… ▶351LifeSadness
Jodi Picoultbut if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2007). Perfect Match, p.478, Simon and… ▶351Thought
Jodi PicoultWhat I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without… ▶373ReadingTimeTruth
Jodi PicoultNowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2009). My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel, p.43, Simon and Schuster362Reading
Jodi PicoultIt was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult … ▶373Time
Jodi PicoultIt's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: … ▶351HumanityLove
Jodi PicoultWe make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2007). Van… ▶373Death
Jodi Picoulti know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience… ▶351DeathHumanityLife
Jodi PicoultI've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old spon… ▶341HopeLifeLove
Jodi PicoultBelieve me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.374Life
Jodi PicoultBut 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’… ▶363Time
Jodi PicoultMaybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. Th… ▶352HumanityLoveSadness
Jodi PicoultA photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2009). My … ▶352Reading
