I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.
Jodi Picoult
Related Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER We were always under the belief you can help someone else. We donated her heart, her corneas and mad... LAURA CARBAUGH There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made som... BENJI MADDEN I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made som... BENJI LEVI MADDEN It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got... CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agre... KOREN ZAILCKAS Someone told me once that you can’t be friends with your kids. I say that person is an idiot. You ... DEE SHIHADY I loved all fantasy, and I always thought that the ideal job as a performer and an entertainer would... ERICA CERRA And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ... DAVID LEVITHAN There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever,"... ELIZABETH GILBERT There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never ... MELISSA ETHERIDGE Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I... CATHERINE LACEY Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. S... RICHELLE MEAD I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so... CHARLES DICKENS I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup... DAVID BOWIE How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so? ROBERT GALBRAITH But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to som... JODI PICOULT I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone les... CANDICE BERGEN if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick you... JOSH LANYON In the time that I was there I respected everyone, ... I'm hurt that someone would say that. I ask m... SAMMY SOSA I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance inste... LEELEE SOBIESKI I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid ... JOHN KNOWLES Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT When you love someone deeply, Say it with a flower, And seal it with a kiss. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w... LINDA MCMAHON His voice took on a thick silkiness to it that made her want to press her body closer. “Octavia, y... SUNSHINE TAYLOR REDDICK [Earl, on liking someone] Because, honestly, the rational part of me know for a rock-solid fact that... JESSE ANDREWS Now and then, as I mature and think about myself just a millimeter less, I hope our trip inspired so... QUENTIN SUPER Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are... APURVA GAGLANI I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou... JOHN LE CARRé ...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her... JODI PICOULT Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice b... VERA FARMIGA If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lic... KATE MCKINNON Okay, we get it, Jodi-with-an-i,” I said, smiling pleasantly up at her. “You have an adorable so... KRISTAN HIGGINS I read this script and it struck a chord with me, and I thought, why does this story affect me so mu... CURTIS HANSON I've known Rich for many years and I know of his talent and passion for sports in general. I knew th... BILL HUNT You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show p... NEIL GAIMAN I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open a... JOHN GREEN I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and th... JACK DORSEY I would say we've had to go out and rescue someone at least once a month over the last six months. I... JOE HUMBLE I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but t... KAMI GARCIA You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what... JAMES S.A. COREY I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I've gotten to know him pretty well from cocktail parties over the years, ... He's a very fine guy, ... CRAIG BRADLEY I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug... BILL CALLAHAN Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the... DEYTH BANGER I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I ha... ANGIE EVERHART It used to be if someone over 18 had sex with someone under 18, it was a sex crime. The law now stat... CAPT. KRISTIN MINISTRAL We are ... actually shocked. We always thought she would pick out someone who at least had a convers... BILL THOMAS Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again. YANCY BUTLER I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the... SIMONE BILES With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make... BELLAMY YOUNG It's just nice that someone thought our research would be interesting to someone else. And I suppose... CRAIG WILLIAMS What is the Pain of Losing someone you deeply love, I cant really explain it but is like taking a Bl... HLONIM You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her... TONY DUNGY They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ... HENRY ROLLINS It was a call that you always hope for, but you never really expect it to happen. I didn't think it ... BRUCE SUTTER Nothing is as beautiful as loving someone so deeply that either you die in that ocean of love or you... NEHA KOTHARI It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone ha... ELIZABETH WURTZEL They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure ther... CELESTE NG Rhys gave no warning as he gripped my arm, snarling softly, and tore off my glove. His touch was lik... SARAH J. MAAS I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t... STEPHEN MORRIS The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago. I heard it more than once that som... DAVE LANE They said she was under a bridge, and she heard someone calling her name, but it wasn't a voice she ... HONI REISMAN We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. Th... ANNE LAMOTT My thoughts were interrupted when I heard someone got slapped. By the sound alone, one could tell th... DREXEL DEAL The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wo... DANIEL HANDLER I talked to her and asked if this was an appropriate relationship to have with someone you cover. To... DEREK LOWE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt.... LUCAS TILL I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a f... LLOYD GEORGE My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry BRUCE WILLIS My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry. BRUCE WILLIS I never say "If I were her, this is how I would have acted, this is what I would have done, etc. etc... C. JOYBELL C. No longer will I allow you to get to me, get under my skin or affect me in anyway from now on all yo... AUTHOR UNKNOWN I love you", once you say this sentence to a girl, it signifies that you have a responsibility towar... YIXING ZHANG It would make me a more cautious and maybe me a little smarter that you shouldn't do that unless you... DAVE CHRISTIAN Once we started looking for someone, I really thought that Daniel would be the perfect guy and I thi... BARBARA BROCCOLI Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white." Mae... KATHRYN STOCKETT I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that the... KEANU REEVES If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat. AMY WINEHOUSE It is weird to look over there and see her shooting orders and calling timeouts. She's always shot o... ASHLEY CLARK I haven't heard any concern from anybody. He's made a remarkable recovery for a guy that had the pro... GIL BRANDT I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for t... WHITNEY BARBETTI What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her me... JACQUELINE CAREY Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. BENH ZEITLIN Heck, it's just as insulting as when someone like you interviews me and asks a question like that, n... CLAY AIKEN It made me realize that I'd changed what I thought was a trivial aspect of who I was but it profound... MALCOLM GLADWELL Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in th... NEIL GAIMAN If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... It's okay to copy someone, to be influenced by a great master, so long as you say it. WALTER W. WADA Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. S... GLADYS KNIGHT As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is... MARK HARMON
More Jodi Picoult
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. JODI PICOULT That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how muc... JODI PICOULT Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me. JODI PICOULT If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev... JODI PICOULT Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones... JODI PICOULT We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right.... JODI PICOULT It's choice that makes us human. JODI PICOULT What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha... JODI PICOULT When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the... JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them. JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you. JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do... JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i... JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want... JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ... JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned. JODI PICOULT You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y... JODI PICOULT It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. JODI PICOULT How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how... JODI PICOULT I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ... JODI PICOULT I know you love me. The question is, how much? JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge... JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a... JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ... JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?" We... JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't... JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ... JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ... JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s... JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT