Variant: Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Source: Perfect Match

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Off the Page