Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it’s not gender that makes a family; it’s love. You don’t need a mother and a father; you don’t necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who’s got your back.”

— Jodi Picoult

352. “There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it’s the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It’s far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”

— Jodi Picoult

353. “Infatuation’s just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that’s when they become real.”

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354. “But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.”

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355. “Here’s what I hadn’t realized: the mother you haven’t seen for almost thirty-six years isn’t your mother, she’s a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn’t make you fast friends. This wasn’t a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.”

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356. “It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.”

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357. “I realized it was like looking into the sun – you shouldn’t do it, because you’d turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

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358. “Maybe Fate isn’t the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.”

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359. “You can believe something really hard,? Faith says, ’and still be wrong.”

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360. “I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don’t necessarily want them to be there.”

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361. “You can make it dark, but I can’t make it light.”

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362. “Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.”

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363. “I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.”

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364. “I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”

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365. “Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation – expectation divided by reality – you didn’t get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.”

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366. “It’s disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”

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367. “No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.”

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368. “You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him.”

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369. “Energy can’t be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?”

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370. “Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

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371. “Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have.”

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372. “I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They’d be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that’s black or white.”

— Jodi Picoult

373. “That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.”

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374. “I’m the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.”

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375. “All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.”

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376. “It’s just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.”

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377. “There are two reasons not to tell the truth – becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.”

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378. “It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.”

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379. “The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It’s more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.”

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380. “You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do.”

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381. “I think there are two different oceans – the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.”

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382. “I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”

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383. “How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

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384. “What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”

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385. “I know how difficult it can be when the image you’ve had of something doesn’t match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”

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386. “Ketika kau hanya memiliki palu, semuanya tampak seperti paku.”

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387. “I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

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388. “Is it really worth dying for the person you love?”

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389. “Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home.”

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390. “There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

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391. “Maybe if you spend your life pretending you’re on a movie set, you don’t ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren’t really yours.”

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392. “I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they’d reach forever.”

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393. “Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

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394. “The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.”

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395. “It doesn’t matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

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396. “When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.”

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397. “All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

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398. “My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”

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399. “They’re fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”

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400. “People are always afraid of the unknown – and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.”

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