Life Quotes Quote by Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“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.”

“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.”

“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”

“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.”

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”

“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”