Jodi Picoult Quotes

The heart was made to be broken.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

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

Your heart can break at any age.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Love hurts more than hate.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

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

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

Only love can break your heart.

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

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.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.