Quotes from Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.