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Jodi Picoult QUOTES

Jodi Picoult QUOTES

1 " You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. "

― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

2 " If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? "

― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes

3 " 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 up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. "

― Jodi Picoult , Mercy

4 " I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. "

― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

5 " and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart. "

― Jodi Picoult

6 " I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. "

― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

7 " The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. "

― Jodi Picoult

8 " When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. "

― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care

9 " My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. "

― Jodi Picoult

10 " When you love someone you let them take care of you. "

― Jodi Picoult

11 " Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. "

― Jodi Picoult , Second Glance

12 " Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. "

― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

13 " So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream. "

― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes

14 " People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more. "

― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care

15 " 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 , The Tenth Circle

16 " How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Pact

17 " I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. "

― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care

18 " How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? "

― Jodi Picoult , Mercy

19 " I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

20 " He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable "

― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper