Quotes from Jodi Picoult

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Life can change in an instant.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.