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21 " Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person. "
― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes
22 " My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct. "
― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith
23 " The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
24 " All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
25 " If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? "
― Jodi Picoult , Plain Truth
26 " What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior. "
27 " Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to. "
28 " Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. "
― Jodi Picoult
29 " Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you. "
― Jodi Picoult , Vanishing Acts
30 " Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. "
31 " She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough to me. I taste her and realize I have been starving. I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this.I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever. "
32 " I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be. "
33 " Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. "
34 " See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded. "
35 " Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever? "
36 " Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. "
― Jodi Picoult , Perfect Match
37 " This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder "
38 " You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? "
39 " if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?. "
― Jodi Picoult , Salem Falls
40 " The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do. "