Jodi Picoult Loss Quotations

The catch was this: Power always involved a loss of humanity.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

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

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.