1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

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

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

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

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

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.

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.