That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

—Jodi Picoult in Handle With Care

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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They were at different places in the same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

—Jodi Picoult in The Tenth Circle

love relationship intimacy

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, I think you have to take them back.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

How do you tell someone you're sorry for ruining their life?

—Jodi Picoult in Salem Falls

Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime.

—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale

More quotations tagged with “dreams”

I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams.

—Thomas Dekker

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance—and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

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