Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.”

— Jodi Picoult

352. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

353. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

354. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

355. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

359. “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

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

363. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

364. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

366. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

367. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

369. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

370. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

375. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

376. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

377. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

380. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

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

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384. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

387. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

390. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

391. “The right idea is the one you can’t stop thinking about; the one that’s in your head first thing in the morning.”

— Jodi Picoult

392. “This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn’t have words big enough to describe them.”

— Jodi Picoult

393. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

394. “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.”

— Jodi Picoult

395. “What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

397. “My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.”

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

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400. “But that’s what love is, isn’t it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?”

— Jodi Picoult