Quotes By Author: Jodi Picoult

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”

“be a good listener, don’t judge and don’t put boundaries on someone else’s grief.”

“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that’s exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“And if you don’t find what you’re looking for?”At Roy’s question Addie looked up.”Then all I’ve lost is time.”

“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass – if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it’s okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”

“Some of us let this realization guide us… We book trips to Tibet, we learn how to sculpt, we skydive. We try to pretend it’s not almost over. But some of us just fill up our gas tanks and top off our Metro cards and do the grocery shopping, because if you only see the path that’s right ahead of you, you don’t obsess over when the cliff might drop off.”

“where all the differences in schooling and money and skin colour evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another.”

“Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?”

“They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we’re still left behind with all the questions they couldn’t answer.”

“Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.”

“Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.”

“I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life.”

“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 were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.”

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”