Jodi Picoult Quotes

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

I must give an account for what I've done.

No one wants to be at the wrong end of finger-pointing.

He who flees proves himself guilty.

I want to know what he did and who he failed.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

The responsibility for all these acts falls first of all on the deported people.

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.