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
“A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
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
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
“She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions. Or lack… — 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
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
“But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secretthat some… — 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
“Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room… — 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
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
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
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
“Trixie seesawed between wishing everyone would leave her alone and wondering why everyone treated her like a leper.” — 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
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
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
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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When the truth came out, and no one wanted to be around her anymore, it stood to reason Josie wouldn’t want to… — 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
“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
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
“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
