“ I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. Jodi Picoult
“ I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family.In c… Jodi Picoult
“ I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. I'd thought. Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fi… Jodi Picoult
“ I feel like I've been standing underneath an open window, just as a baby gets tossed out. I grab the baby, right, because who wouldn't? But then another baby gets tossed out, so I pass the baby to som… Jodi Picoult
“ I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart... That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereot… Jodi Picoult
“ I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents. Jodi Picoult
“ I didn’t want to invade hisprivacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wantedhim to be a child forever. She glanced up, crying harder now. But you can’… Jodi Picoult
“ I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh… Jodi Picoult
“ I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet. Jodi Picoult
“ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl Jodi Picoult
“ How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made? Jodi Picoult
“ He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date. Jodi Picoult
“ Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. Jodi Picoult
“ He was a detective, but he didn’t detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,every time. Jodi Picoult
“ He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something thatdoesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same. Jodi Picoult
“ Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spr… Jodi Picoult
“ Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me. Jodi Picoult
“ Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've gotten past my own selfishness to where I've got to help her. See, when you're Plain, you do… Jodi Picoult
