Quotes from Jodi Picoult

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

True love can break the most powerful curse

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

I found plain truth very interesting.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?