Jodi Quotes

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. ~ Jodi Picoult

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ~ Jodi Picoult

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds. ~ Jodi Picoult

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance. ~ Jodi Picoult

Would he really want us here ... forever? Because forever was what I was thinking when I agreed to move. I never would have done it, if it wasn't about forever. ~ Jodi LaPalm

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. ~ Jodi Picoult

You could only save someone who wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be dragged down for the count too. ~ Jodi Picoult

Baby, did I wear you out? ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. ~ Jodi Picoult

I had to drop my head back to meet his eyes, and the way he said my name
it was the same reverence people used in their prayers to Janan. ~ Jodi Meadows

There's this weird part about having kids - you know when your family is finished, and when it's not. ~ Jodi Picoult

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

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world. ~ Jodi Picoult

It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. "I hate the world that does not work out fair. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

The arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the bed - Em had said it smelled of him. ~ Jodi Picoult

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong? ~ Jodi Picoult

We don't have to meet people where they are, we just have to love them where they are to find any sort of peace. This is something I learned from being my mother's child. ~ Jodi Livon

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you. ~ Jodi Picoult

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ~ Jodi Picoult

I listened intently. He chose to skim past the parts that would put his ridiculous worries to rest, and I chose to snatch the book from his hand and read those parts aloud to him. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there? ~ Jodi Picoult

Certainly I know better than most that circumstances can turn you into someone you've never been before. ~ Jodi Picoult

I'm relishing in the fact that for once, I'm leading Jesse. This has absolutely never happened and it doesn't for long. I'm scooped up and carried the rest of the way ... ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

REACH FOR THE STARS! ~ Jodi Picoult

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become. ~ Jodi Meadows

My knickers are flashing. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

I would like to tell her all about Josef, but she already dismissed me once when I tried to confide in her. It is like he said: we believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist. Mary can't accept the thought that Josef Weber might be a monster, because that implies that she was duped by him. ~ Jodi Picoult

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first. ~ Jodi Picoult

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away? ~ Jodi Picoult

We are just stardust after all. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

I couldn't find you. I thought you had left. I had a hundred heart attacks in ten minutes, Ava. Why were you in the other bedroom? ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Is it unhealthy if you accept it? Not because you're frightened or vulnerable, but because you love them immeasurably. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

He has a reptile dysfunction. ~ Jodi Picoult

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind. ~ Jodi Picoult

Times like this are like muddy water, Rea, you just got to keep moving through it until you get to the other side. ~ Jodi Thomas

I think about Ruth walking down the street on East End and wonder how many other residents questioned what she was doing there, even if they never said it to her face. How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious. ~ Jodi Picoult

She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust. ~ Jodi Picoult

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. ~ Jodi Picoult

Just so you know," I begin, "when they say 'Once upon a time' ... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book. ~ Jodi Picoult

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars. ~ Jodi Picoult

I may not have much say here, but I still can make the choice to not be a victim. The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than, like an animal. To make me ashamed of my nakedness. But I have spent twenty years seeing how beautiful women are - not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withstand. So ~ Jodi Picoult

In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear. ~ Jodi Taylor

The only person he told about his hunch was Monroe. He and Monroe had grown up together in Dorchester, playing in the streets when the summer made the asphalt breathe and their laughter bounced ~ Jodi Picoult

When this is over ... we will got to the rainforest, 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

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way. ~ Jodi Hills

I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven
you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much. ~ Jodi Picoult

Whether Henry was a royal trendsetter or it was practical under their helmets, I didn't know. I certainly couldn't think of any other reason for having the most hideous hairstyle in a History that includes Donald Trump. ~ Jodi Taylor

Every day is different, every day I'm on an adventure. If I get bored, you can bet that in the story I'm writing, bullets will fly. ~ Jodi Thomas

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises. ~ Jodi Picoult

How do you do it?"
"Do what?"
"All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered."
Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix," he sighed, "it mattered. ~ Jodi Picoult

What's beautiful, grey and wears glass slippers? Cinderelephant. Why are elephants wrinkled? They don't fit on the ironing board. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a goose. Why do elephants have trunks? Because they'd look funny with a glove compartments ~ Jodi Picoult

Leave it to a man to mess things up ~ Jodi Picoult

Did you tell her it was just until all was safe, or did you promise her forever?" Victoria shook her head. "Sounds to me like you've got some proposing to do before you're really a married man. Maybe a few days alone will loosen your tongue and make that knee of your bend easier. ~ Jodi Thomas

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ~ Jodi Picoult

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. ~ Jodi Picoult

Baby, my heart's splitting. I hate fighting with you. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Believing that you don't deserve to heal is one of the biggest blocks to healing ~ Jodi Aman

San Antonio is the patron saint of things that have gone missing. ~ Jodi Picoult

Don't do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy. ~ Jodi Picoult

Anxiety rushed in without warning. It came like thunder as my heart raced louder in my ears. It came like the sea over my head as my lungs struggled to expand. It came like a swarm of gnats crawling over my skin, itching, burning, complete in their distraction. ~ Jodi Meadows

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. ~ Jodi Picoult

I hate not knowing the truth. ~ Jodi Meadows

I'm not getting caught up with a handsome stranger, no matter how handsome he is. And oh, is he mind meltingly delicious. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

I don't flee. I evade. ~ Jodi Meadows

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance. ~ Jodi Picoult

It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. ~ Jodi Picoult

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. ~ Jodi Picoult

Leave out what you expected and tell me what you got. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Biblical justice was antiquated, or so she had taught. You couldn't hack off the hand of a thief; you couldn't stone a murderer to death. A more advanced society took care of its justice in a courtroom - something Laura had advocated until about five years ago. A trial might be more civilized, but emotionally, it couldn't possibly pack as much satisfaction. ~ Jodi Picoult

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges. ~ Jodi Picoult

No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over. ~ Jodi Picoult

He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He ~ Jodi Picoult

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. ~ Jodi Picoult

We need to make friends. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Do you think magic exists if it can be explained? ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

Act as if everyone loves you.
Be in love with everyone.
Hug people with your words. ~ Jodi Livon

So what have I learned that is helpful? Well, if you are white, like I am, you can't get rid of the privilege you have, but you can use it for good. Don't say I don't even notice race! like it's a positive thing. Instead, recognize that differences between people make it harder for some to cross a finish line, and create fair paths to success for everyone that accommodate those differences. Educate yourself. If you think someone's voice is being ignored, tell others to listen. If your friend makes a racist joke, call him out on it, instead of just going along with it. If the two former skinheads I met can have such a complete change of heart, I feel confident that ordinary people can, too. ~ Jodi Picoult

I walk towards the car but on second thought step back to the railing for a final look. Enormous. Anonymous. I could hurtle myself down the walls of this chasm, and never be found. ~ Jodi Picoult

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be. ~ Jodi Picoult

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view. ~ Jodi Picoult

I love the rain. It calms me down, somehow, soothes my reckless heartbeats. It's like chamomile tea for my soul. ~ Jodi Perkins

There was musuc in me, but in this post-Cataclysm world, that didn't matter very much. ~ Jodi Meadows

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him. ~ Jodi Picoult

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book. ~ Jodi Picoult

That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it. ~ Jodi Picoult

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around. ~ Jodi Picoult

I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to. ~ Jodi Benson

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt. ~ Jodi Picoult

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. "Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we're out of purgatory for the weekend."
"Maybe later," I murmur, still distracted by the day's previous events.
"So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested."
"Huh?" I say. ~ Jodi Picoult

For just a heartbeat I picture the life I could've had if I'd joined a sterile corporate law firm on the partner track. I imagined meeting my clients in paneled wood conference rooms instead of re-purposed storage closets that smell like bleach and pee. I imagine shaking the hand of a client whose hand isn't trembling from meth withdrawal or abject terror at a justice system he doesn't trust. ~ Jodi Picoult

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been? ~ Jodi Picoult

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally
break them apart? ~ Jodi Picoult

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. ~ Jodi Picoult

Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart? ~ Jodi Picoult

Just breathe and believe. ~ Jodi Livon

Peter sighed into the water, and his breath sent a small circle of it into tiny ripples. "It seems cowardly, getting old. Don't you think?"
She rolled onto her side to look at him, pillowing her ear with her right arm, and letting her fingers dangle in the water beyond her head. "How is it cowardly?"
Peter kept his eyes on his reflection. "You just curl up around yourself, and sit by the fire, and try to be comfortable. When you get old, you just get smaller inside, and you try not to pay attention to anything but your blankets and your food and your bed."
"Being comfortable is not a bad thing."
Peter shrugged and turned his head to look at her as if it was a matter of fact. "Of course it is. Old people lock out all the scary, wild things. It's like they don't exist."
She wanted to say that she would have liked for those things not to exist, either, but she held her tongue, because she didn't want to sound like a coward. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words. ~ Jodi Picoult

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you. ~ Jodi Picoult