52 Stunning Jodi Picoult Quotes That Everyone In Their Twenties Can Deeply Relate To

“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Happiness is what you choose to remember.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com