Jodi Picoult My Quotations

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

something is always falling apart in me.

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.