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

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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...

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Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.

—Jodi Picoult in A Spark of Light

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

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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Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

—Virginia Woolf

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I studiously avoided all so-called holy men. I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself—out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

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A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

—Henry Morgan

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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

—Anatole France

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

—Josh Billings

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