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Jodi Picoult

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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.

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Quotes from Jodi Picoult

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

time change permanence speech

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

reality memory past secrecy

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

—Jodi Picoult in Keeping Faith

change permanence transformation

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 in Picture Perfect

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

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

—Jodi Picoult in Sing You Home

reality dreams fantasy

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

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

—Jodi Picoult in Change of Heart

What made you happy once might not make you happy now.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

We are all psychic to a degree. How many times do you walk into a room and just know there's tension in there? How many times have you thought about an old friend, and then she calls? Or had a dream about your grandma and you wake up and find the lost earring you inherited from her? It's like making a psychic telephone call: you send energy into the universe, and it comes back to you.

—Jodi Picoult in Where There's Smoke

The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be… just because you're you.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

love illumination showing off

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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