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

— Jodi Picoult

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 get lemon zest instead.

— Jodi Picoult

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

— Jodi Picoult

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

— Jodi Picoult

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

— Jodi Picoult

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

— Jodi Picoult

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

— Jodi Picoult

And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

— Jodi Picoult

And if you don't find what you're looking for?" At Roy's question Addie looked up." Then all I've lost is time.

— Jodi Picoult

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

— Jodi Picoult