Jodi Picoult Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jodi Picoult quotes, Jodi Picoult sayings, and Jodi Picoult proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. Jodi Picoult
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. Jodi Picoult
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect. Jodi Picoult
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? Jodi Picoult
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names. Jodi Picoult
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct. Jodi Picoult
The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before. Jodi Picoult
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? Jodi Picoult
When this is over, we will go to the rain forest, or the pyramids, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will. Jodi Picoult
Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window. Jodi Picoult
That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you're missing one. Jodi Picoult
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. Jodi Picoult
That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you're missing one. Jodi Picoult
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. Jodi Picoult
You can’t look back — you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. Jodi Picoult
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time. Jodi Picoult
When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. Jodi Picoult
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Jodi Picoult
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that the're not. Jodi Picoult
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. Jodi Picoult
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? Jodi Picoult
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. Jodi Picoult
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? Jodi Picoult
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? Jodi Picoult
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without. Jodi Picoult
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. Jodi Picoult
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. Jodi Picoult
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. Jodi Picoult
When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. Jodi Picoult
Cool and nonchalant, like none of this mattered anyway. Is that what guys really wanted? Or was it just what the girls thought the guys wanted Jodi Picoult