Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Love isn’t a perfect match, but an imperfect one. You are rocks in a tumbler. At first you bump, you scrape, you snag. But each time that happens, you smooth each other’s edges, until you wear each other down. And if you are lucky, at the end of all that, you fit.”

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302. “There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best.”

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303. “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.”

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304. “It doesn’t take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”

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305. “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.”

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306. “You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.”

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307. “Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.”

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

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309. “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.”

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310. “You can’t exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”

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311. “I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.”

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312. “I’m sick and tired of people in my life abandoning me, and she will be just one more. So I do what is easiest, when I feel like I’m in danger of being left behind. I make sure I’m the one to walk away first.”

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313. “My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

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314. “It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man.”

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315. “The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we’re supposed to.”

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316. “What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you’ll never take your eyes off her again?”

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

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318. “Keeping a secret isn’t always lying. Sometimes it’s the only way to protect the person you love.”

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319. “You know how I get angry sometimes? That’s because it’s the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I’m really here.”

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320. “You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.”

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321. “Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.”

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322. “Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.”

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323. “You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.”

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324. “The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

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325. “This is what it means to be human. We are all just canvases for our scars.”

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326. “He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.”

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327. “Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.”

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328. “Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

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329. “Every holocaust starts with an ember. You just have to know what to look for.”

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330. “I don’t know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

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331. “I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.”

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332. “Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”

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333. “The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”

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334. “She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

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335. “Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren’t. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

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336. “I know you love me. The question is, how much?”

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337. “There’s some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there’s got to be someone worth saving.”

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338. “Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?”

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339. “I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

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340. “Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.”

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341. “On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven’t been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn’t that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald.”

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342. “She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

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343. “See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”

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344. “You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”

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345. “What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

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346. “I’ve always sort of wondered: If everyone else’s opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

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347. “They don’t really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn’t even be alive, if it wasn’t for Kate being sick.”

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348. “Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is.”

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349. “Just because you keep something a secret doesn’t mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

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350. “The whole panorama makes me realize how small I am, in the grand scheme of things. How insignificant my problems are when you zoom out and out and out and see the whole of the world.”

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