Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 4)

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

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

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

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

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

“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?”

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

“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.”

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

“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”

“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”