“Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“love has nothing to do with what you’re looking at, and everything to do with who’s looking.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake… — 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] 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
Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“During the night he'd kicked off a sock; his toes were plump as early peas; it was all she could do not… — 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
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in… — 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
“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
But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the… — 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
Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When you love someone, you'll do anything you can to keep them with you.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
True love is felonious...You take someones breath away...You rob them of the ability to utter a single word...You steal a heart. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? — 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
“But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.” — 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