Jodi Picoult

"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies ... "

Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

Jodi Picoult

"There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken."

Jodi Picoult (Salem Falls)

Jodi Picoult

"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

Jodi Picoult

"I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever."

"Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true."

"You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.""

"Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you."

"Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder."

"When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?"

"They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again."

"... Remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help. "

"... People think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. "

"What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty."

"The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy. "

"There should be a statue of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after forty-two days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. that there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass- if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it is okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays. "

"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."

'I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect,' she says. 'You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.' "

"If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.""

"You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place. "

"Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together."

"There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"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

Jodi Picoult

"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"There are two kinds of love...in the safe kind you look for someone who's exactly like you. It's what most folks settle for. But then there's the other kind of love. Everyone's born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that's a perfect fit. You'll search for it forever, if you have to. And if you're lucky enough to find it, it looks so right, you start to tear at your own seams, thinking, maybe I could look just as perfect. But then, of course, when you try to get close to their other half, you don't fit anymore. That kind of love...you come out of it a different person than you were when you started."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"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

Jodi Picoult

"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."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed ..."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"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."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where you thought you were headed."

"There are two kinds of love...in the safe kind you look for someone who's exactly like you. It's what most folks settle for. But then there's the other kind of love. Everyone's born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that's a perfect fit. You'll search for it forever, if you have to. And if you're lucky enough to find it, it looks so right, you start to tear at your own seams, thinking, maybe I could look just as perfect. But then, of course, when you try to get close to their other half, you don't fit anymore. That kind of love...you come out of it a different person than you were when you started."

"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."

"Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side."

"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."

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

"You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake."

"There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth."

" Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris."

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

"You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"

"If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?"

"The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to. "

"I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.""

"… true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. "

"You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."

"In the space between yes and now, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future."

"Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey."

Jodi Picoult