Quotes from Jodi Picoult

When you expect something, you're sure to be disappointed. I learned that a long time ago.

Sabía muy bien cómo bajar la escalera sin hacer ruido. Ya lo había hecho un par de veces con anterioridad, para encontrarse con Matt en el patio de atrás. Una noche él le había enviado un mensaje de móvil: «Quiero verte ahora». Ella había salido a encontrarse con él vestida con un camisón blanco de algodón, como un fantasma, y cuando él la tocó, por un momento le pareció que iba a escurrírsele entre los dedos.

That…sucks." I shrug. "It is what it is," I tell her. "The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

He's lighter than you'd think, like whatever was inside him was used up long ago. With that reasoning, it's a wonder I don't float off into the sky.

That's all a human life is, really—a do-over, a chance to get it right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or you'll be brought back to try again.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.' – HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA

You can love a pet more than you love some people," I say suddenly, surprising even myself. Everyone turns, because unlike the others, I hardly ever draw attention to myself by volunteering information. "It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

warned by a ghost.

every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

Josie already knew the answer. This group of kids—they weren't her friends. Popular kids didn't really have friends; they had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust—at any moment someone might make you the laughingstock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them.

It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situation, or that it was possible to love someone in a way that you had not personally experienced.

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The

I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Nella natura selvaggia non ci sono le fiabe, non c'è la storia della Cenerentola. Il lupo di rango inferiore che sembra salire in cima al branco in realtà era sempre stato un alfa.

If I hadn't left at that moment, I knew I would have stayed forever.

He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years

I'm very sorry - the only words that could not rework into anything but what they signified.

permission, I blurted it out—even though I should have thought twice. "Your daughter is looking for you." Cleo's best friend, who was part of the show

Anger, it turns out, is a renewable source of fuel.

If you want to feel sorry for yourself," Mary continues, "then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

He wished that he could keep getting up morning after morning, with the world remaining unchanged. That was the thing about feeling like life was good. Even when it was—especially when it was—you knew you had something to lose.

To live was always a conditional verb.

No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. – CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ, Vom Kriege