“ After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive. Jodi Picoult
“ Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn’t quite so accessible to all. Jodi Picoult
“ A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. Jodi Picoult
“ A jewel’s just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Jodi Picoult
“ A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Jodi Picoult
“ A filament of sensation sizzled between them, like a thin string of kerosene that, for the love of a match, could turn into a wall of fire. Jodi Picoult
“ What's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with. Jodi Picoult
“ I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably. Jodi Picoult
“ Think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live… Jodi Picoult
“ The shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now.… Jodi Picoult
“ It it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you t… Jodi Picoult
“ If i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything with… Jodi Picoult
“ I know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience. Jodi Picoult
“ And another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief… Jodi Picoult
“ [...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation… Jodi Picoult
“ You’re a fixer, Grant mused. You’re also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it’s the pains in the ass that change the world. Jodi Picoult
“ You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhol… Jodi Picoult
