Heart Quotes by Jodi Picoult

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

— Jodi Picoult

“But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.”

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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

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Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

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What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

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She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

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“If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.”

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Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the…

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if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like,…

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The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And…

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I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s…

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“She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions. Or lack…

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Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder…

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It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once…

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“When the truth came out, and no one wanted to be around her anymore, it stood to reason Josie wouldn’t want to…

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“Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room…

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On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm…

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“But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secretthat some…

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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses,…

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Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they…

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I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me…

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Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a…

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He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep…

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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and…

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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but…

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When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear…

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Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was…

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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between…

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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

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“This wasn't the first time he'd be saving her by letting her go.”

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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

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These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

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Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

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“But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart.”

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“Trixie seesawed between wishing everyone would leave her alone and wondering why everyone treated her like a leper.”

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I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

— Jodi Picoult