“ You’d be surprised how hard it is to get people to believe the truth. I guess that’s because most of the time we don’t want to admit it to ourselves. Jodi Picoult
“ You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to r… Jodi Picoult
“ You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way ar… Jodi Picoult
“ You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him. Jodi Picoult
“ You can keep dividing and dividing and you’ll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no Jodi Picoult
“ You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces. Jodi Picoult
“ You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you. Jodi Picoult
“ You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per… Jodi Picoult
“ You are not an impostor, Sam Hallowell told me. You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You… Jodi Picoult
“ Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed-… Jodi Picoult
“ Why hadn’t he realized this before? Everyone knew that if you divided realityby expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you inverted the equation-expectationdivided by reality-you didn’t g… Jodi Picoult
“ Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence? Jodi Picoult
“ Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or… Jodi Picoult
“ When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external... Jodi Picoult
“ When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.Like: The fifth time's the charms. Jodi Picoult
“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. Jodi Picoult
“ When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else. Jodi Picoult
