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

About 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...

More quotations from Jodi Picoult

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

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

—Jodi Picoult in Sing You Home

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

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

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

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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

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