Jodi Picoult

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

“But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your tr...”

“Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn'...”

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

“Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.”

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

“What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but ch...”

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you g...”

“But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”

“When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.”

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life...”

“Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?”

“No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.”

“well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

“Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It...”

“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”

“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.”