Jodi Picoult Differ Quotations

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

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

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.

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

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

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.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

The thing that most people didn't understand...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.

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.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

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

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

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.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

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.

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's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

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.