Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

253. “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...”

— Jodi Picoult

254. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

255. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

256. “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

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

— Jodi Picoult

258. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

259. “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

260. “You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

— Jodi Picoult

261. “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

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

— Jodi Picoult

263. “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?”

— Jodi Picoult

264. “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?”

— Jodi Picoult

265. “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?”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

268. “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

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

— Jodi Picoult

270. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

271. “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?”

— Jodi Picoult

272. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

273. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

274. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

278. “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?”

— Jodi Picoult

279. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

280. “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?”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

282. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

283. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

284. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

287. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

288. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

289. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

290. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

292. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

293. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

294. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

296. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

297. “I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.”

— Jodi Picoult

298. “Did you ever walk through a room that’s packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

— Jodi Picoult

299. “The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.”

— Jodi Picoult

300. “There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.”

— Jodi Picoult