A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.
Jodi PicoultTags: life
All I’m saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.
Jodi PicoultI don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.
Jodi PicoultI’m afraid that, if I let myself feel ecstatic about being with you, then when you leave me, I won’t be able to pull myself back together..
Jodi PicoultI have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this.
I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive.
Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
If there’s a physical component to falling in love—the butterflies in your stomach, the roller coaster of your soul—then there’s an equal physical component to falling out of love. It feels like your lungs are sieves, so you can’t get enough air. Your insides freeze solid. Your heart becomes a tiny, bitter pearl, a chemical reaction to one irritating grain of truth.
Jodi PicoultDaniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.
Jodi PicoultA song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.
Jodi PicoultMy grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?
Bread, of course.
In our world," Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, "there will be no semicolons.
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