They were at different places in the same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

—Jodi Picoult in The Tenth Circle

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Jodi Lynn Picoult ( PEE-koh; born 1966) is an American writer. As of 2026, Picoult has published 30 novels, several short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In...

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When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, I think you have to take them back.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

How do you tell someone you're sorry for ruining their life?

—Jodi Picoult in Salem Falls

Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime.

—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.

—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why

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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

—Becca Fitzpatrick in Crescendo

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Another plan I have is World Peace through Formal Introductions. The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You'd have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My theory is, if you knew everyone in the world personally, you'd be less inclined to fight them in a war: "Who? The Malaysians? Are you kidding? I know those people!

—George Carlin

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