Jodi Picoult: Someone (page 4)

“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?”

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

“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.”

“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.”

“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

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

“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.”

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

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

“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”

“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.”

“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…. they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”

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

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”