Jodi Picoult: Quotes about love

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“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

…"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

“I know you love me. The question is, how much?”

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

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Variant: Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”

Source: Mercy

“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

Source: Change of Heart

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact