Quotes from Jodi Picoult

I wish you could know what it feels like to find the missing piece of you, the thing that makes you stronger.

I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom. I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

And Peter, with his 20/20 vision, cast his eyes downward, so that he wouldn't see.

I walk towards the car but on second thought step back to the railing for a final look. Enormous. Anonymous. I could hurtle myself down the walls of this chasm, and never be found.

Todo el mundo piensa que se cometen errores cuando se es joven—le dijo la jueza a Lacy—. Pero no creo que cometamos menos cuando somos adultos.

Loneliness is a mirror and it recognizes itself

But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.' I

In Judaism, that's called teshuvah. It means 'turning away from evil.' It's not a one-time deal, either. It's a course of action. A single act of repentance is something that makes the person who committed the evil feel better, but not the person against whom evil was committed.

It struck her that dispensing justice was really more about being present and engaged than anything else—unlike

But my mother also would have been the first to tell me that good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing." "What's the difference?" "The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done—when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff—who else is involved, and what's happened before, and what the rules say.

What was the point of having a life if you never had the chance to live it?

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent.

When you're seventeen, it's all about the now, not the after.

When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.

No necesitas agua para sentir que estás ahogándote, ¿o sí? Cuando

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a fuck about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.

into a conversation. I am hoping that

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One

You know, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears of a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

That's what happens to dreams," Charlotte said. "Life gets in the way.

After all, the last thing Kenosi saw, before he closed his eyes forever, was his mother coming back to him.

You see, I tell myself. Here is proof. I've known Christina my whole life. And yes, maybe there are differences between us—socioeconomic, political, racial—but that doesn't mean we can't connect, human to human, friend to friend.

It is pitch dark and raining when I leave Josef's house, shaking beneath the responsibility of his confessions. What I want