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“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“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?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
― Jodi Picoult

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

-Brian Fitzgerald”
― Jodi Picoult

“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive. ”
― Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale

“I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.”
― Jodi Picoult

“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
― Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

“Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved