Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Sometimes when you find something you didn’t really realize you were looking for, you just don’t know how to react.”

— Jodi Picoult

152. “As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”

— Jodi Picoult

153. “The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies.”

— Jodi Picoult

154. “Happiness is what you choose to remember.”

— Jodi Picoult

155. “I’m not saying you did the wrong thing. I’m not even saying it wasn’t something I’d thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn’t the right thing.”

— Jodi Picoult

156. “Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t see clearly?”

— Jodi Picoult

157. “Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

— Jodi Picoult

158. “We Pisces, we’re a special breed.”

— Jodi Picoult

159. “Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.”

— Jodi Picoult

160. “Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.”

— Jodi Picoult

161. “There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.”

— Jodi Picoult

162. “When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”

— Jodi Picoult

163. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

164. “Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

— Jodi Picoult

165. “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up.”

— Jodi Picoult

166. “I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.”

— Jodi Picoult

167. “The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

— Jodi Picoult

168. “Just because you didn’t speak the facts out loud didn’t erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.”

— Jodi Picoult

169. “Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”

— Jodi Picoult

170. “Having a family means you’re never alone.”

— Jodi Picoult

171. “It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

— Jodi Picoult

172. “Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.”

— Jodi Picoult

173. “In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.”

— Jodi Picoult

174. “We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents – the question is, how much?”

— Jodi Picoult

175. “I’m weird. Everyone says so.”

— Jodi Picoult

176. “God doesn’t give people burdens they can’t handle.”

— Jodi Picoult

177. “The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It’s always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

— Jodi Picoult

178. “When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

— Jodi Picoult

179. “The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you’re at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you’ve got some help with the second.”

— Jodi Picoult

180. “Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn’t even know existed.”

— Jodi Picoult

181. “I know what it’s like when the things you believe make you feel like you’re on the outside looking in.”

— Jodi Picoult

182. “If you didn’t remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn’t?”

— Jodi Picoult

183. “If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.”

— Jodi Picoult

184. “If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn’t someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”

— Jodi Picoult

185. “But there’s an enormous difference between an audience that’s watching you because they can’t wait to see what comes next and an audience that’s watching you because they’re waiting for you to fail.”

— Jodi Picoult

186. “You’d think someone who’d been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.”

— Jodi Picoult

187. “You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”

— Jodi Picoult

188. “When you think you’re right, you’re most likely wrong.”

— Jodi Picoult

189. “When you don’t know where you’re headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.”

— Jodi Picoult

190. “I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.”

— Jodi Picoult

191. “Sometimes knowing what’s right isn’t a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”

— Jodi Picoult

192. “She was all the things I wasn’t. And i was all the things she wasn’t. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn’t even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I’ve always been. Her hand, it fit mine.”

— Jodi Picoult

193. “People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

— Jodi Picoult

194. “The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn’t disappointed.”

— Jodi Picoult

195. “That’s the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don’t even realize how much you were missing one.”

— Jodi Picoult

196. “Religion isn’t in your DNA. you don’t believe just because your parents believe.”

— Jodi Picoult

197. “It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn’t know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.”

— Jodi Picoult

198. “If he says jump, she doesn’t even ask “How high?” She goes out and buys a pogo stick.”

— Jodi Picoult

199. “What if instead of focusing on what you don’t have, you concentrate on what you’ve got?”

— Jodi Picoult

200. “It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you’ve never truly seen yourself at all. I.”

— Jodi Picoult