“ How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? Jodi Picoult
“ How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker ro… Jodi Picoult
“ How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever? Jodi Picoult
“ Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello. Jodi Picoult
“ He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name. Jodi Picoult
“ He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you had love toward her, as if itwere a physical thing you could present and hold—a bundle of tulip… Jodi Picoult
“ He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own cheeks started to burn, because I was sure the neighbors would see. When he lifted his head, my mother's eyes were a color I… Jodi Picoult
“ He remembered learning in one of his social studies classesthat in the Old West, when Native Americans were thrown into jail, they sometimes dropped dead.The theory was that someone so used to the fre… Jodi Picoult
“ Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There… Jodi Picoult
“ Given my mother's experience with romance, I shouldn't even care - but there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you… Jodi Picoult
“ Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive. Jodi Picoult
“ For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they cho… Jodi Picoult
“ For the first time in my life I begin to 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
“ Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completel… Jodi Picoult
“ Exactly one month after he was convicted, when the lights were dimmed and the detention officers made a final sweep of the catwalk, Peter reached down and tugged off his right sock. He turned on his s… Jodi Picoult
“ Delilah's mother cleans other people's houses, and she reminds me a bit of another story from Rapscullio's shelves, about a young scullery maid who possesses both glass footwear and inner beauty, whic… Jodi Picoult
“ Catholics believed in life at conception. Muslims believed that it took forty-two days after conception for Allah to send an angel to transform sperm and egg into something alive...There were the outl… Jodi Picoult
“ Can you see the pond?From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it? Jodi Picoult
“ CanI tell you something? Off the record?Alex nodded.Before I took this job, I used to work in Maine. And I had a case that wasn’t just a case, if youknow what I mean.Alex did. She found herself listen… Jodi Picoult
