How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? — 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
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at… — 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
It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me… — 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
“Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies… — 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
“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
“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
