“ What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found? Jodi Picoult
“ I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names. Jodi Picoult
“ The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was t… Jodi Picoult
“ Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American. Jodi Picoult
“ Eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you Jodi Picoult
“ You? I start to laugh. Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a career track and you're family-centered and you probably even can balance your checkbook.And I'm lonely, C… Jodi Picoult
“ You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep thin… Jodi Picoult
“ When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. Jodi Picoult
“ Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying… Jodi Picoult
“ True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language. Jodi Picoult
“ This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open… Jodi Picoult
“ These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. Jodi Picoult
“ There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there’s someone who must give. Jodi Picoult
“ There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else. Jodi Picoult
“ The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself. Jodi Picoult
