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"Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I held my mouth, and i really stiffled a giggle. Now i understood the bloody vexation and the reckless act performed by our housegirl. She was fondling my infant part, and i knew she was horny and lost in the act."

"If you want to be the best you can be, don't judge anyone. Not even yourself."

"If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future- staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?"

"That wasn't love, that was stupidity."

"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."

"Every emotion in the human spectrum is actually a teacher that is here to show us the degree in which we are either resisting life or flowing with life."

"I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes."

"Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic."

"You're only as strong as your biggest weakness."
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"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"

"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."

"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."

"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."

"What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?"
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