Picture Perfect Quotes

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“the image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“Because we're two of a kind. You were made to take care of me, and I'm going to take care of you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“I couldn't hear his voice over the hammer of my heart. And I told myself over and over I should have known that someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“because in the past words have only driven them apart.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“It was hard to separate the fact from the fiction...”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“You don't borrow trouble.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect