Jodi Picoult Quotes

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

Silence is so freaking loud

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.