Jodi Picoult Quotes

We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.

The heart was made to be broken.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

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.

Since Beau's death, I'm definitely shattered. I feel like a piece of china that's been glued back together again. The cracks may be imperceptible-but they're there. Look closely, and you can see the glue holding me together, the precarious edges that vein through my heart. I am not the same. I feel it every day.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

Only love can break your heart.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.