Jodi Picoult Quotes

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

One must not trifle with love.

People are human beings. They talk about stuff, they make mistakes, they try to impress each other with their tidbits.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

Love makes you do things you can never imagine.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Love is only one of many passions.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

I fall in love very easily.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.