“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”Jodi Picoult Source: Vanishing Acts
“Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you”Jodi Picoult Change of HeartSource: Change of Heart
“This must be what an addict feels like, I think,trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.”Jodi Picoult Source: Between the Lines
“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”Jodi Picoult book Sing You HomeSource: Sing You Home
“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”Jodi Picoult book Lone WolfSource: Lone Wolf
“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”Jodi Picoult book Lone WolfSource: Lone Wolf
“Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.”Jodi Picoult book The StorytellerSource: The Storyteller
“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”Jodi Picoult book Handle With CareSource: Handle with Care
“Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”Jodi Picoult book Handle With CareSource: Handle with Care
“Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.”Jodi Picoult My Sister's KeeperSource: My Sister's Keeper
“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character… 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.”Jodi Picoult My Sister's KeeperSource: My Sister's Keeper
“Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.”Jodi Picoult
“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 HeartSource: Change of Heart
“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”Jodi Picoult book Picture PerfectSource: Picture Perfect
“When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.”Jodi Picoult My Sister's KeeperSource: My Sister's Keeper
“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”Jodi Picoult My Sister's KeeperSource: My Sister's Keeper
“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”Jodi Picoult book Handle With CareSource: Handle with Care
“There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.”Jodi Picoult book Nineteen MinutesSource: Nineteen Minutes