Jodi Picoult Loss Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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