As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they… — 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
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the… — 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
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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses,… — 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
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
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
Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken — 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
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
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. — 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
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
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
After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was… — 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
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a… — 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
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder… — 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
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
Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart. — 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
Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but… — 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
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
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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
