Quotes by Jodi Picoult

About Jodi Picoult:

Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.
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I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it righ...

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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms aro...

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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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When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

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It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to hel...

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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

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

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Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

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Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

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There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces ...

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Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She ...

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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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Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

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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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There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

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Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

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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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Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

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Author Bio

  • NameJodi Picoult
  • DescriptionBetween the lines (2012)
  • BornMay 19, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist; Writer