Jodi Picoult Quotes

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

You start off at an early age dreaming about love, but you have no idea how it will be.

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

Because...because...she came here with me.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.

She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.

Love means sharing the world with someone else.

But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.