Jodi Picoult: Quotes about love (page 3)

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”

“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”

“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”

“Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.”

“You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.”

“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”

“If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

“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.”

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

“The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

“Love's a tidal wave," she says.
"Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask.
"No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”