Book Quotes by Jodi Picoult

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

'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."

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.

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

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.

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