“ The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world. Jodi Picoult
“ That's what I think love is, when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing. Jodi Picoult
“ Someone real, I hear myself saying. Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symp… Jodi Picoult
“ Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along. Jodi Picoult
“ She belonged to me. She was all the things I wasn't. And I was all the things she wasn't. Her hand, it fit mine. Jodi Picoult
“ Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and he… Jodi Picoult
“ People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning. Jodi Picoult
“ People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit… Jodi Picoult
“ Oh, darling, that’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person. Jodi Picoult
“ My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct. Jodi Picoult
“ Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what… Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect. Jodi Picoult
“ Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time Jodi Picoult
“ It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love… Jodi Picoult
