Jodi Picoult
113 quotes
Biography
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
"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."
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
"I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same."
"I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you."
"and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
"I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."
"When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."
"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."
"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies"
"I love you,"he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces."
"Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom."
"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."
"I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for,"Ian whispers. "I think we just do."
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it"
"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."
"You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do."
"People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more."
"Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions."