Jodi Picoult: Someone (page 2)

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

“There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.”

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do.”

“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.”

“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”

“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.”

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”

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

“There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.”

“The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”

“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.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“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.”

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”