I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

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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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Stop trying to act like nothing happened. Because something did, and you can't make it go back to being the same.

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now… if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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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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What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

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No matter how hard it feels, you don't need to be afraid to move on. There's always more to see and feel.

—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World

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They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.

—Hugh Elliott

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Sometimes letting go and forgiving others and yourself is the only way to move forward in life.

—J.S. Cooper in The Other Side of Love

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The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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