The best Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Love is not a "because", it's a "no matter what".

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

I told you to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so that when it pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there, watching for you. You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you

Because as soon as it's over, that's one more piece of the past I won't be able to get rid of

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look

And I suddenly am seventeen again -The year I realized love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understand that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

It is so easy to think the world revolves around you, but all you have to do, is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

'What do parent look like?"
'You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that."

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

Nothing good is born from lies. And greatness is not what you think.

Welcome to the future. Life is good, but it can be better. And why shouldn’t it be? All you need is to want it. Think about finally having everything you always wanted.

Barbara Minerva: "Have you ever been in love?"
Diana Prince: "A long, long time ago."

Everyone is fighting their own battle, Diana. Just as you're fighting yours.

I used to want to save the world. This beautiful place. But I knew so little then. It is a land of magic and wonder. Worth cherishing in every way. But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness shimmering within.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Trust is earned - I can't just magically hand it over.

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between.

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.