Top 500 Jodi Picoult Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I found plain truth very interesting.”

— Jodi Picoult

402. “When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”

— Jodi Picoult

403. “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

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

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406. “Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I’d rather be lost with.”

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407. “Sometimes I think there’s a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that’s where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can’t help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.”

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

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409. “Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.”

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410. “And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it.”

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411. “Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s any less true.”

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412. “Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

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413. “But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn’t, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one’s back on it?”

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414. “And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.”

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415. “It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else’s. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party – a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.”

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416. “This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder.”

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417. “How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

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418. “I don’t know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

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419. “I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I’d hurt Rob. Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we’re trying to protect.”

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420. “You didn’t get past something like that, you go through it – and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

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

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422. “When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

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423. “What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.”

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424. “You don’t make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn’t global. It’s personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.”

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425. “Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it’s stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he’ll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.”

— Jodi Picoult

426. “She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

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427. “Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”

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428. “This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.”

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429. “Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other’s constant.”

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

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431. “Babies are such blank slates. They don’t come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don’t like. They don’t come into this world with anything, really, except a need for comfort. And they will take it from anyone, without judging the giver. I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.”

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432. “If you live in each other’s pockets long enough, you’re related.”

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

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434. “It felt like I’d been living underground, and for a moment, I’d been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you’ve seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

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435. “You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.”

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436. “If you want to know someone’s story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It’s new, even to me.”

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437. “The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story.”

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438. “There is a place in you that you don’t even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.”

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439. “From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.”

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440. “Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect – I guess that’s where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who’s there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

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441. “Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.”

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442. “How do you walk into someone’s life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”

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443. “Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can’t-and you’ll be right everytime.”

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444. “Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?”

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445. “I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.”

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446. “I would prove to you that being different isn’t a death sentence but a call to arms.”

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447. “You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed – the length of a sleeping baby’s eyelash, the span of a child’s hand. Life turns on a dime, and – it turns out – so does one’s conscience.”

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448. “Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It’s saying, You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

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449. “The Lord turned water into wine. All I’m suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.”

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450. “There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

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