Jodi Picoult: Quotes about love

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“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 Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

Jodi Picoult

“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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 Care

Source: Handle with Care

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“True love can break the most powerful curse”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Love is not an equation… It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things