Quotes from Jodi Picoult

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.