Jodi Picoult Quotes

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.

I was in a long-distance relationship. There's a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity - those ideas you have when you're next to someone who you haven't seen in a month.

I love you" I say. "I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

Just hold me please,” she replied. I’d hold her forever if I could.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

What did my arms do before they held you?

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.