Quotes from Jodi Picoult

You can't create life in a place that's dying by degrees.

She touched him and found that even something as innocent as the lacing of their fingers could raise all the hairs on the back of her neck and make her blood beat faster.

There's a word we learned in social studies: schadenfreude. It's when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is self preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it's banded together against an enemy. It doesn't matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you-you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself.

You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Given my mother's experience with romance, I shouldn't even care - but there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you.

he glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter.

There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.

She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.

These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.

You'd be surprised. Charlie said. You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit. What the hell is Limp Bizkit?

Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?

When he smiles at me, I'm lost

Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.

I know the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feelings bears you like a tide.

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.

It is amazing how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

But you remind me so much of her. I-I do? Yes. Addie gifted him with a smile.Because I love you both.

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets carried to an arena for our viewing pleasure. By definition, then, there are times it must go missing.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.

people who have been backed into a corner will do anything to fight their way to the center again.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.