Jodi Picoult: Quotes about love (page 2)

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

“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”

“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.”

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

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

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