52 Stunning Jodi Picoult Quotes That Everyone In Their Twenties Can Deeply Relate To

52 Stunning Jodi Picoult Quotes That Everyone In Their Twenties Can Deeply Relate To

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

Bianca SparacinoFebruary 25, 2017

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, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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, Handle With Care

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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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, Handle With Care

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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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, Handle With Care

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That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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, Handle With Care

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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

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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 yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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, Handle With Care

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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, Handle With Care

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

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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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 really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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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, Change Of Heart

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There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart

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I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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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?

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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Happiness is what you choose to remember.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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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.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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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?

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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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.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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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.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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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, My Sister's Keeper

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Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper: A Novel (Wsp Readers Club)

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