Jodi Picoult: Quotes about people

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”

“The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.”

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy”

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

“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”

“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”

“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?”

“Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

“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”