Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”

— Jodi Picoult

252. “Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy’s dying wish?”

— Jodi Picoult

253. “She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you’d be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.”

— Jodi Picoult

254. “I didn’t want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it’s hard to remember who I am...”

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255. “Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.”

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256. “I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.”

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257. “Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle.”

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258. “I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I’d surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.”

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259. “There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there’s someone who must give.”

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260. “If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

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261. “If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

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262. “Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed – sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it’s going to be.”

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263. “A fire can’t burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”

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264. “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.”

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265. “A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

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266. “I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless. It just means you fear different things.”

— Jodi Picoult

267. “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”

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268. “But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

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269. “There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.”

— Jodi Picoult

270. “I think you’re the only person who gets me. When I’m with you, the world doesn’t feel like a problem I can’t figure out. Please come to the dance, because you’re my music.”

— Jodi Picoult

271. “There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”

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272. “He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever.”

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273. “But will you miss me? More importantly – will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”

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274. “Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I’ve decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”

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275. “For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

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276. “How do you tell someone that you weren’t the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you’d meant the things you’d said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.”

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277. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

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278. “It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”

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279. “Prayer is like water – something you can’t imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”

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280. “I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.”

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281. “Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

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282. “If you never go out on that limb, you’re missing a hell of a view.”

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283. “We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.”

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284. “Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”

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285. “Love is not an equation... It is not a contract, and it’s not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

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286. “If you choose to be looking for something, you’d better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you’ve been expecting.”

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287. “People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

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288. “It’s hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there’s something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there’s a whole story in who’s left behind.”

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289. “Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I’m cut into so many pieces that there isn’t enough of me to be put back together.”

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290. “A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

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291. “Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”

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292. “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

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293. “Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.”

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294. “It’s the child who’s supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”

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295. “The loneliest creature on earth is a whale that has spent more than twenty years calling out for a mate, I read, but whose voice is so different from those of other whales that none of them ever respond.”

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296. “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”

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297. “Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup.”

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298. “I don’t believe in writer’s block. Most of writer’s block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can’t edit a blank page.”

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299. “Being a teenager isn’t all that different from being part of someone else’s story. There’s always someone who thinks they know better than you do.”

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300. “A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.”

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