Jodi Picoult

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#relationships #love

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#english #inadequacy-of-words #language #lose #loss

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am... ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#sisters

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#reality

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #meaning #life

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

#reunion #faith

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#joy #limits #wonder #words #change

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love