Jodi Picoult

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?

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home.

You couldn`t have strength without weakness, you couldn`t have light without dark, you couldn`t have love without loss.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

Some lessons can`t be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

A real friend isn`t capable of feeling sorry for you.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Maybe who we are isn`t so much about what we do, but rather what we`re capable of when we least expect it.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you`re young. [...] But I don`t think we make any fewer when we`re grown up.

You can`t look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn`t mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn`t mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you`re standing on the other side.