Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“You dont love someone because theyre perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that theyre not”

“Theres some illogical part of me that still believes if you want superman to show up, first theres got to be someone worth saving.”

“When heaven breaks, who fixes it?”

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

“Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the persons spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement Day, they were the only sinners who didnt get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.”

“Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?”

“As it turned out, hell wasnt 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.”

“Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never wanted to actually hear the words out loud, because then youd have to admit to yourself that youd wanted proof, and that somehow made you baser, less civilized.”

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didnt.”

“The thing that most people didnt understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.”

“Just because a person didnt admit that something had changed didnt mean it hadnt happened.”

“In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you walked through the rubble and told yourself that it wasnt nearly as bad as it looked.”

“Youd think someone whod been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.”

“She wondered how many hours it had been since shed talked out loud. If you didnt use your voice, ever, would it eventually shrivel up and dry away? Was there a natural selection involved in not speaking up?”

“The catch was this: Power always involved a loss of humanity.”

“Betrayal was a stone beneath the mattress of the bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit youd never forget?”

“The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadnt yet been slammed in your face.”

“It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidosocope color.”

“High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrugged and offered you a bloody, apologetic smile.”

“...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.”