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

“Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.”

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

“Oh, darling, that’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.”

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.”

“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”