Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Quotes About Reality

2. “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Commitment Quotes

3. “You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Storytelling Quotes, Practice Quotes, Creative Quotes

4. “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Loneliness Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes

5. “Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

— Jodi Picoult

6. “You can’t edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

7. “Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Cute Quotes, Love Life Quotes, I Love You Quotes, Thinking of You Quotes, I Miss You Quotes

8. “This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

— Jodi Picoult

9. “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Past Quotes

10. “Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

— Jodi Picoult

11. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”

— Jodi Picoult

12. “It’s crazy, right? To love someone who’s hurt you? It’s even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.”

— Jodi Picoult

13. “Some lessons can’t be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

— Jodi Picoult

14. “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

— Jodi Picoult

15. “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”

— Jodi Picoult

16. “It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Regret Quotes, Quotes About Water, Quotes About Ocean

17. “Just because you can’t see me doesn’t mean I’ve gone away.”

— Jodi Picoult

18. “Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

— Jodi Picoult

19. “Life can change in an instant; don’t be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.”

— Jodi Picoult

20. “Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.”

— Jodi Picoult

21. “They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”

— Jodi Picoult

22. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Firsts Quotes

23. “When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”

— Jodi Picoult

24. “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Quotes About Trust

25. “Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you’ve just met the person whose hand you’ll be holding the day you die.”

— Jodi Picoult

26. “If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”

— Jodi Picoult

27. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

28. “In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

— Jodi Picoult

29. “I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

— Jodi Picoult

30. “In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future.”

— Jodi Picoult

31. “The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Reading Quotes

32. “Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed.”

— Jodi Picoult

33. “True love can break the most powerful curse.”

— Jodi Picoult

34. “Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you’re with feel like they matter.”

— Jodi Picoult

35. “All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

— Jodi Picoult

36. “I only just found you, I can’t lose you now.”

— Jodi Picoult

37. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

— Jodi Picoult

38. “I’m too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live.”

— Jodi Picoult

39. “It takes two people to make a friendship work.”

— Jodi Picoult

40. “Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”

— Jodi Picoult

Featured in: Real Quotes

41. “But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.”

— Jodi Picoult

42. “Researching ‘Lone Wolf,’ I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn’t provoked by the human.”

— Jodi Picoult

43. “Life is not a plot; it’s in the details.”

— Jodi Picoult

44. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”

— Jodi Picoult

45. “You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”

— Jodi Picoult

46. “Things don’t always look as they seem.”

— Jodi Picoult

47. “Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”

— Jodi Picoult

48. “Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.”

— Jodi Picoult

49. “Every life has a soundtrack.”

— Jodi Picoult

50. “Scars are just a treasure map for pain you’ve buried too deep to remember.”

— Jodi Picoult