Jodi Picoult Lines Quotations

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.