Jodi Picoult Way Quotations

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

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 you learned along the way.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

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

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.