Quotes from Jodi Picoult

Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.

a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

When it rains, her father said it pours.

You can plan for something your whole life, and still get taken by surprise

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of. If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yourself a mother?

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.

The wine- it made her limbs loose and liquid, made her feel that a hummingbird had taken the place of her heart.

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.

I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven--you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much.

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

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

I love you...But I made you cry.

Jika kau memilih untuk mencari sesuatu, maka sebaiknya kau siap menghadapi apa pun yang kau temukan. Karena mungkin itu bukan seperti yang kau harapkan.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

How do you know she's the one for you? ...and did you ever notice how, when she's nervous,she sings? Off-key? You like that? Well, that's the thing. I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me.

It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.