Quotes from Jodi Picoult

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For everyone person who gets, there's someone who must give.

It's the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who'd come for help.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

I'm a daughter from a strong man and beautiful mommy, and I'm so proud to be I am.

The weapons a writer has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example.I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. 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.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves in each other. Jettison a personality and you just might find it taking up residence in the heart of the person you loved most.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Silence has a sound

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

Maybe this is all love is - twin roots of pain and pleasure. Maybe the miracle isn't where we wind up, but that we get there at all.

You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different.

This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.

I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.

A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.

Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.

the arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the bed - Em had said it smelled of him.

They were different places in that same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

She is quiet for a moment. have you ever been swimming in the summer, she asks, when a cloud comes in front of the sun? You know how, for a few seconds, you're absolutely freezing in th water and you think you'd better get out and dry off? But then all of a sudden the sun's back out and you're warm again and when you tell people how much fun you had swimming you wouldn't even think to mention those clouds. Cara shrugs. That's what it's like, with my father. -Cara

Do you ever go back? Ruthann nods, When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.