“When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Just because you love someone doesn't mean the Lord has it in His plan for you two to be together.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips… — 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
“Is it really worth dying for the person you love?” [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. “That’s not the real question,… — 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
“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I… — 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
“And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“THE TRUTH and ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts)” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, that’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.” — 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
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Do you really believe that you can love someone very much, very very much, even though you're a world apart?” — 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