“But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through—the man you fell in love with years ago might look… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It turns out that there’s something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you’re happy:… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She did not understand this but then there was much in the world she did not understand. Raw love, like raw heartache… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to say I love you to say I love you,” you said with a shrug. “All you have to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How do you do it?" "Do what?" "All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mistakes are memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You can love a pet more than you love some people. [...] It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How do you know she’s the one for you? ...and did you ever notice how, when she’s nervous,she sings? Off-key? You like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How come people don't do things like that nowadays? You grope around in the back of a sedan in high school and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever , not right… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I'm burning, after all, even if it's not for my convictions. Does flesh charring off at the bone hurt less when you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Something was missing. I couldn't tell you what it was if you asked but it was off. And if you think of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You can believe, for example, that a dead-end job is a career. You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When you lose someone you love, there is a tear in the fabric of the universe. It's the scar you feel for,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard… — 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