Jodi Picoult
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.Collection: Writing
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.Collection: Life
A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.Collection: Important
In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.Collection: Love
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.Collection: Inspirational
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.Collection: Stars
When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.Collection: Children
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.Collection: Fall
I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.Collection: Love You
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.Collection: Mother
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.Collection: Memories
Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.Collection: Girl
You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.Collection: Past
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.Collection: Firsts
The real power of a wolf isn’t in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.Collection: Real
You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.Collection: Strong
A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.Collection: Real
Infatuation’s just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that’s when they become real.Collection: Real
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is.Collection: Strong
Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s any less true.Collection: Reading
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder.Collection: Romance
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.Collection: Stories
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story.Collection: Stories