Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

About Jodi Picoult

Portrait of 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...

More quotations from Jodi Picoult

You get through it, you just never get over it.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

moving on healing

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give—and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you know there is a place or person you can call home.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

home travel place

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

love fear death

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

mistakes moving on

History

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