Quotes from Jodi Picoult

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

Love makes life a little brighter

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?