Quotes from Jodi Picoult

I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.

Can you see the pond? From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it?

How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious. The few black faces in the room stand out in harsh counterpoint.

In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities that they only dreamed of.

Something was missing. I couldn't tell you what it was if you asked but it was off. And if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

Don't think you have to discuss the illness. Sometimes, a sick person needs a break. And if you ask up front if he wants to talk about how he feels-- or doesn't-- you're giving him control at a time when he doesn't have a lot of choices.

You may not be able to choose your reality. But you can change it.

He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.

If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.

I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.

We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.

And I thought—not for the first time—that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.

The mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Here's what they do not tell you about falling in love: there's not always a soft landing beneath you. It's called falling, because it's bound to break you.

tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.

con su visión recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver.

It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.

un arma no era nada si no había una persona detrás.

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.

I feel like I've been starving for decades and he's a feast.

Art isn't what you see. It's what you remember.

don't ever recover from losing someone you love—even the ones you leave behind because you're better off without them.

You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them.