“ I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, tha… Jodi Picoult
“ I remember everything Campbell, she interrupts. If I didn't, this wouldn't be so hard. Jodi Picoult
“ I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for the love of their life and never fining it, and we've got it and it isn't worth a… Jodi Picoult
“ I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do th… Jodi Picoult
“ I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting companies to go into busi… Jodi Picoult
“ I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn’t because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen. Jodi Picoult
“ I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. Jodi Picoult
“ I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you t… Jodi Picoult
“ I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this.I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive.Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is w… Jodi Picoult
“ I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love—well, those were all just different forms of hunger.… Jodi Picoult
“ I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am... Jodi Picoult
“ I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure:That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue.That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming.That I was loved.That this tim… Jodi Picoult
“ I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting. Jodi Picoult
“ Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community. Jodi Picoult
“ How am I suppose to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I’m wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone’s arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was… Jodi Picoult
“ History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. Jodi Picoult
“ Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're… Jodi Picoult
