Jodi Picoult Quotes

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

If I love Etta James, it's not just the voice, and it's not just the song, but it's the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk.

I want somebody to hear my song and say, 'You know, man, I've been through that.'

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

Trust is not spoken, Trust is a feeling.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.