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Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers.

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“You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.”

People Ifs Way Persons Sin Making Peace

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

People Good People

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

People Ifs Appreciate Safety

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.”

Source: The Storyteller

“There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.”

People Facts Evil Black White Circumstances Capable Murder Monsters Evil People Black Or White

Author:Jodi Picoult

“There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”

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“You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.”

People Persons Enough Reality Loses Love You Blame Scar Ugliness Love Someone Crippled

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.”

People Ifs Stills Differences Lines Gone Forever Alive Victim Accidents

Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel

Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

People Ifs Whole Girl Lost Memories Whole Life Practicals Clothings Holocaust Packs Suitcases Practical Things

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”

People Love Needs Facts Eye Kindness Laughing Details

Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.”

People Different Together Mass Tradition Rallying Banding Together

Author:Jodi Picoult

“You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.”

People Fall Falling In Love Steers

Book:Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices

“I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.”

People Thinking Way Book Would Be Care Belief Willing Normal Including Circles Handle My Sister Keepers My Sister's Keeper Sisters Keeper Handle With Care

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.”

People Block Luxury Writer's Block

Author:Jodi Picoult

About the Author

Born: May 19, 1966
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Quotes: 1371

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My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A NovelRelated source material

My Sister's KeeperRelated source material

Handle with Care: A NovelRelated source material

The StorytellerRelated source material

Between the LinesRelated source material

The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen MinutesRelated source material

Vanishing ActsRelated source material

My Sister's Keeper: A NovelRelated source material

The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House RulesRelated source material

Sing You Home: A NovelRelated source material

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