“Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence,…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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 o…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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 yourse…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com