Quotes from Jodi Picoult

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade.

I thought that if I loved you hard enough, I could move mountains for you; I could make you fly. It didn't matter to me how that happened—just as long as it did. I wasn't thinking of who I might hurt, only who I could rescue.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. —CHINESE PROVERB

How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara

She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.

Most women like to have a few years to get to know themselves, before getting to know marriage and children." "But once you have a family, there's so much more you learn about yourself

unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident.

But Edward doesn't even flinch; it's as if he's reading the text of me with some magic internal Rosetta stone that makes him understand what I say is not what I mean at all.

Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you-but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?

My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

You don't know what you don't know

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. She swallowed and looked at the black ground. The thing is, they're both you.

There's this little acronym I was taught in grade school—it's J-O-Y. It's supposed to make Plain children remember that Jesus is first, Others come next, and You are last.

most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us.

What is ethical to a lawyer differs from what's ethical to the rest of the world.

Corazon smiled at him. You know how your mother keeps her Christmas card list? How she sends to people who send her one, and that list gets longer and longer every year? - Yeah, Jack muttered. I have to lick the damn stamps. -Watch your mouth, Cora reprimanded. See love's like that. Once you give it, even by accident, you're on that list forever.

So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no?

Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. Congratulations, I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in stars so that she never, ever does to him what I have done to my parents.