“On the second Thursday of the month, Mrs. Dombrowski brings her dead husband to our therapy group.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? — 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
never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I’m sure there’s a protocol for meeting a spouse who’s been cremated, but I’m pretty much at a loss. Am I supposed… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“My husband hogs the remote,” Shayla says. “He says it’s because women control everything else.” “Actually, it’s instinct,” Stuart says. “The part… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“We fall back into silence. I look around XO Cafe and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are… — 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
“It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag;… — 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
“She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you… — 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
