“ I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his bo… Jodi Picoult
“ What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. Jodi Picoult
“ The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one. Jodi Picoult
“ In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are;… Jodi Picoult
“ Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. Jodi Picoult
“ It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it. Jodi Picoult
“ I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't. Jodi Picoult
“ Simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent o… Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. Jodi Picoult
“ Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had. Jodi Picoult
“ [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.Maybe later, I murmur, still distr… Jodi Picoult
“ I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice. Jodi Picoult
“ Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just mean… Jodi Picoult
“ The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really wan… Jodi Picoult
“ Two thousand years ago the night sky looked completely different, and so when you get right down to it, the Greek conceptions of star signs as related to birth dates are grossly inaccurate for today's… Jodi Picoult
“ The Thai people are pathologically shy. Combine that with a reluctance to lose face by giving a wrong answer, and it makes for a painfully long [ESL] class. Usually I ask the students to work on exerc… Jodi Picoult
“ It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. Jodi Picoult
