Jodi Picoult Quotes

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

Love happens when people forgive.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

I could forgive anybody.

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

We forgive just so long as we love.

When women love, they forgive everything...

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.