Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?”

“No, honestly, my mouth shouldnt be able to function unless my brains engaged.”

“There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.”

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

“Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Maxs hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. Its a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.”

“You know someones right for you when the things they dont have to say are even more important than the things they do.”

“If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth cant someone be healed by happiness?”

“Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.”

“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. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.”

“I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And Im pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, theyre both you.”

“When Im with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck thats backing up.”

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

“Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.”

“How could he convey to someone whod never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

“Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemys dying wish?”

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldnt live for very long without a heart.”

“I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life.”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldnt be filled?”