Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the person were supposed to.”

“You know its never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Its always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”

“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like its safe inside your mouth.”

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

“Im lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when Ive got PMS. You dont love someone because theyre perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that theyre not.”

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isnt a social construct but an instinct.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

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

“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”

“It turns out that there’s something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you’re happy: not being able to comfort her when she’s sad.”

“If you didnt remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadnt?”

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

“When you love someone you let them take care of you.”

“Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [cant] save a single person.”

“But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”