Jodi Picoult - Quodid

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Jodi Lynn Picoult ( PEE-koh; born 1966) is an American writer. As of 2026, Picoult has published 30 novels, several short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.

Quotes from Jodi Picoult

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale

love people fate

Beware of getting what you want. It’s bound to disappoint you.

—Jodi Picoult in Sing You Home

disappointment desire

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

love soul heart theft

I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

power hope better

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now… if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

love communication happiness death unknown

Stop trying to act like nothing happened. Because something did, and you can't make it go back to being the same.

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

mistakes moving on

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

love fear death

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you know there is a place or person you can call home.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

home travel place

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give—and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

You get through it, you just never get over it.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

moving on healing

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

mind mistakes memories

It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Books

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