Quotes from Jodi Picoult

ZÅ'ote rybki nigdy nie urosnÄ… wiÄ™ksze, ni? akwarium, w którym siÄ™ znajdujÄ….

Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA does not make you fast friends. This was not a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story.

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

You can feel people staring; it's like heat that rises from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don't have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it's about you.

people who didn't talk about their problems got to pretend they didn't have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable.

Doves coo in the rafters above us as she sits down on the blanket, her loathed dress whispering around her. She pops a grape into her mouth and sighs. This is so unreal. I feel like a princess. She couldn't have given me a better opening for the conversation I've been hoping to have. Funny, I say. I was thinking the same thing. Delilah frowns. You feel like a princess too?

Che cosa significa essere diversi nella nostra società? Fino a che punto può arrivare il desiderio di vendetta di una vittima? E soprattutto: che diritto ha, chiunque, di giudicare gli altri?

It felt like the stamp of a passport when you reached your own country, and realized that the only reason you'd traveled was to remember the feeling of home.

But risk always looks different when you are beating he system than when you've been beaten

matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint.

O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is only a trail of debris

Since when does anyone get the option to do what's easiest?

He doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul.

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together—what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? I shake my head. Technically, the earth's path crosses this comet's gritty tail once a year. But a show as dynamic as this one might be once in a lifetime.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed.. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Because it takes more strength to change someone else's life than it takes to change your own.

Best place to be? Adrienne asks after a moment. On the other side of this wall. In my bed, at home. Anywhere with Nathaniel. Before, I answer, because I know she'll understand.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because you let your guard down.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Nobody who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.