Jodi Picoult Quotes

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

A relationship isn't just about space; it's about emotion and heart and all those good things.