Quotes from Jodi Picoult

I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

You can't keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

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 doomed.

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

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. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.