“ One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you’ve already lived. And you think, How did this happen so fast? It was only yesterd… Jodi Picoult
“ Oliver, she says. You can do this. I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someon… Jodi Picoult
“ Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them.Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. Maybe you've got that backward, he said. Ma… Jodi Picoult
“ No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. Jodi Picoult
“ No matter who else is mourning, you’re in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you’re aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happ… Jodi Picoult
“ No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someon… Jodi Picoult
“ My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock. Jodi Picoult
“ Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD Jodi Picoult
“ Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets carried to an arena for our viewing pleasure. By definition, then, the… Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie. Jodi Picoult
“ Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance. Jodi Picoult
“ Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else. Jodi Picoult
“ Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. Jodi Picoult
“ Louie’s final thought before he passed out was that this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun. Jodi Picoult
“ Look at that, Michael said. My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy. Jodi Picoult
“ Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you Jodi Picoult
