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.

About Jodi Picoult

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...

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

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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

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

—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

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

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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.