1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

Only the liar knows he's lying

It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidosocope color.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.