Jodi Picoult Parent Quotations

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.