Jodi Picoult Different Quotations

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.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

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

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.