Jodi Picoult Quotes

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

Don't tear your hair out over a woman; it'll be harder to attract the next one if you're bald.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.

Love doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender. Your heart's gonna get broken. You're gonna turn into a crazy person.

Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you?

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles

I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

There is no grief like heartbreak.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Ever since Dimitri came back...no, scratch that. Ever since you became obsessed with changing him, you've been torn over me. No matter what's happened between us, you've never really given yourself over to our relationship. I wanted to believe what you told me. I thought you were ready...but you weren't.

I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.