To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."
Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said.
She thought of Tik Tok, who was fon...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't ...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for mo...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON An unspoken rivalry threaded their relationship, in which Tiger Lily thought that if she could keep ...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tige...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Everyone will think I'm ugly."
Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We hav...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON How can I describe Peter's face, the pieces of him that stick to my heart? Peter sometimes looked al...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was im...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked sa...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hop...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn'...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaki...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. Th...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattere...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. They fought about...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else ...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, becau...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Look," Peter said.
To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking lik...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been afte...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON The Lady shrugged nonchalantly. "You're a hider. Thats what you're thinking. And you're right."
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I've been reading about moths," she said, to fill the silence.
"What have you read?"
Mag...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I'm an American before any party preference.
LYNN ANDERSON We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he coul...
LYNN ANDERSON He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.
LYNN ANDERSON When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's be...
LYNN ANDERSON When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start bei...
LYNN ANDERSON We felt it was best to decrease the prices when it helped our customers the most. April is the month...
LYNN ANDERSON I've been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just ...
LYNN ANDERSON Blessed are those to whom Easter is not a hunt...but a find; not a greeting...but a proclamation; no...
ANDERSON There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition...
JODI PICOULT The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first gla...
JODI PICOULT I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You do...
JODI PICOULT What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on...
JODI PICOULT You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank p...
JODI PICOULT Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.
JODI PICOULT (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
JODI PICOULT The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at leas...
JODI PICOULT Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usua...
JODI PICOULT In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...
JODI PICOULT I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover...
JODI PICOULT It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened whe...
JODI PICOULT You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...
JODI PICOULT If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice ...
JODI PICOULT If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wis...
JODI PICOULT Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
JODI PICOULT Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and ...
JODI PICOULT I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have...
JODI PICOULT If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...
JODI PICOULT Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the...
JODI PICOULT Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
JODI PICOULT if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
JODI PICOULT Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found...
JODI MEADOWS It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...
JODI PICOULT and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...
JODI PICOULT If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of ...
JODI PICOULT You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
JODI PICOULT Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...
JODI PICOULT There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. ...
JODI PICOULT Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire und...
JODI PICOULT I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard...
JODI PICOULT If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s be...
JODI PICOULT There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's som...
JODI PICOULT A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
JODI PICOULT Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or whe...
JODI PICOULT You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you ...
JODI PICOULT See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
JODI PICOULT I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
JODI PICOULT It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
JODI PICOULT It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
JODI PICOULT Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same...
JODI PICOULT There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up cr...
JODI PICOULT It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants ri...
JODI PICOULT true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
JODI PICOULT It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
JODI PICOULT The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
JODI PICOULT I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I...
JODI PICOULT Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
JODI PICOULT Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expe...
JODI PICOULT Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...
JODI PICOULT You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu...
JODI PICOULT I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
JODI PICOULT When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...
JODI PICOULT Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked...
JODI PICOULT The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
JODI PICOULT If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh...
JODI PICOULT Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that th...
JODI PICOULT Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon bel...
JODI KANTOR I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this paren...
JODI BENSON I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance p...
JODI RELL Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to...
JODI RELL I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
JODI RELL We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to wo...
JODI RELL The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation t...
JODI RELL I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office Jul...
JODI RELL Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other...
JODI RELL We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourse...
JODI RELL The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and b...
JODI RELL At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.
JODI RELL The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ev...
JODI PICOULT They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
JODI PICOULT Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing somethin...
JODI PICOULT My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to g...
JODI PICOULT Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you w...
JODI PICOULT But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. Howev...
JODI PICOULT As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital...
JODI PICOULT When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...
JODI PICOULT A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...
JODI PICOULT You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but ther...
JODI PICOULT And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, n...
JODI PICOULT You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
JODI PICOULT There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
JODI PICOULT This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...
JODI PICOULT God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I...
JODI PICOULT What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
JODI PICOULT I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Every...
JODI PICOULT Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event....
JODI BENSON Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who i...
JODI KANTOR Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn...
JODI PICOULT Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
JODI PICOULT Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, y...
JODI PICOULT Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - an...
JODI PICOULT I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't und...
JODI PICOULT It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, ...
JODI PICOULT I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they ...
JODI PICOULT When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
JODI THOMAS The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
JODI PICOULT I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why ...
JODI PICOULT The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time u...
JODI PICOULT She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.
JODI PICOULT Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.
JODI PICOULT We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
JODI RELL In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.

Or at least thi...
JODI PICOULT You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep d...
JODI PICOULT There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or...
JODI PICOULT I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
JODI PICOULT Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d l...
JODI PICOULT Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, ...
JODI PICOULT Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we'v...
JODI PICOULT When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
JODI PICOULT He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the...
JODI PICOULT The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.
JODI PICOULT Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under...
JODI PICOULT An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they...
JODI PICOULT ...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her...
JODI PICOULT words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...
JODI PICOULT Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if the...
JODI KANTOR Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. T...
JODI PICOULT Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in t...
JODI PICOULT I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and ...
JODI PICOULT Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
JODI PICOULT Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
JODI PICOULT You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that ...
JODI PICOULT Intuition is a gift from God, it is your birthright. What you do with it is your gift back.
JODI LIVON What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis ...
JODI PICOULT Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likel...
JODI PICOULT When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about y...
JODI BENSON Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially wi...
JODI BENSON A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania's coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for ...
JODI BALFOUR Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born str...
JODI PICOULT It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have al...
JODI PICOULT Federal law is quite clear: Air National Guard units cannot be moved without the express permission ...
JODI RELL Tuition at our institutions of higher learning is slowly but surely being priced out of reach for mi...
JODI RELL When they asked Connecticut, we knew our facts and we had the documentation to back it up and it pai...
JODI RELL We have hit the crossroads today.
JODI RELL The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses,...
JODI RELL We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather ...
JODI MEADOWS You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So y...
JODI PICOULT Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
JODI PICOULT I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrif...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...
JODI PICOULT See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
JODI BENSON Lisa called me here in Alabama and told me about this. And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesbur...
JODI COLLINS What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
JODI PICOULT Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ...
JODI PICOULT I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giv...
JODI PICOULT I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light.
JODI LIVON You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
JODI PICOULT Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he...
JODI PICOULT Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and j...
JODI PICOULT Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make...
JODI PICOULT I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what t...
JODI PICOULT I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always unde...
JODI PICOULT