Jodi Picoult Quotes

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.

Love hurts more than hate.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

Pain is love.

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

There's the idea that love is supposed to hurt, but it really shouldn't hurt.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

Only love can break your heart.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.