Jodi Picoult Quotes

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Africa – You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

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

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally–break them apart?

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn’t speak out loud.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn’t making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.