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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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

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Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a be...

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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so ...

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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

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Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

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I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook...

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It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

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My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

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The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

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She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

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People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

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I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

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Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

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Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

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Author Bio

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