“Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It wasn't her throat, and it wasn't a fever, but it hurt all the same to be heartbroken.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice-cream man; we… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She was making a conscious effort to take with her all the best things about the world she wanted to leave, just… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What Trixie wanted, most of all, what she couldn't have - to go back to being the kind of girl who worried… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
