Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soulmate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

—Jodi Picoult in Between the Lines

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

I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

—Jodi Picoult in Between the Lines

You can't buy a clean conscience.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

—Jodi Picoult in Picture Perfect

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

—Jodi Picoult in Keeping Faith

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