I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi Picoult
Related I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You do... JODI PICOULT You?" I start to laugh. "Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a care... JODI PICOULT Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. JODI PICOULT You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not JODI PICOULT You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. JODI PICOULT I love you more than my own skin. FRIDA KAHLO you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because... AMBER FAITH HUN My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad... LEE RYAN I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From wait... PABLO NERUDA i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD 15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BE NICOLE KRAUSS I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more characte... GEORGE CLOONEY You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than m... C.S. LEWIS I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better,... YANDEL when i meet someone new they tell me that im crazy or that i need personal and that im the weirdest ... DALLY SALAD I was never really a career woman, you see. My life always came first. When I got nominated for 'Dia... CARRIE SNODGRESS I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good... JOHN GREEN You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that ... JODI PICOULT I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down fr... BERNIE MAC Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle,... JOHNNY WEIR In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when ... ANAïS NIN i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest bette... C.S. LEWIS She looked up at Val. “God, can you imagine if I could get my hair to change color on its own?” ... ELAINE LEVINE You think that I'm so manipulative and scheming, Miss Sage? It's all for them. For my loved ones fir... RICHELLE MEAD Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent... PRIYANKA CHOPRA i want to be the best i can be but when i cant i'll try my best to achieve my goal my goals in life ... DALLY SALAD Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's s... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer th... ELIZABETH GILBERT The hardest part for so long was learning how to shut my own doors. You taught me to hate so many th... LAURA KESSLER I breathe you, dream, feel, taste your existance.But you leave me cold at night.Drowning in my own w... TANICA S HALL I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of... RACHEL MCADAMS The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but n... RITA MORENO With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that... JOYCE GIRAUD I do understand the passion of the fans, and I think that's a plus when you're talk about playing or... DEMARLO HALE I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. JOHN KEATS Young love is when you love someone because of what they do right. Mature love
is when you love some... MARK GOULSTON You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma ... JUSTIN BIEBER You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m... C.S. LEWIS Let me take you to a better place,
full of death, rot and decay. My silver hair shall billow around ... LUCY CREVAN I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just... BLYTHE DANNER Life is so short, and love is so big. Too big for life! That's why, when you love someone, they'd be... C. JOYBELL C. I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. GRAHAM GREENE I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wo... DIANE LANE Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people w... CAROLINA HERRERA You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the ... RON JAWORSKI I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love ... ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. ... AYN RAND I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or... NORA EPHRON For the person who tortured me in jail. For the person who tortured the many of my followers a... AHMAD MOFTIZADEH I could go on all night, Lake. I could go on and on and on about all the reasons I’m in love with ... COLLEEN HOOVER The way I feel about you . . . it’s crazy.” “You got the crazy part right,” she snapped... JAMIE MCGUIRE They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ... CASSANDRA CLARE I love it when a woman hugs me. I love it when they say that I make them laugh because that means I&... SHERRI SHEPHERD I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I... ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails... GEORGE CLOONEY I'm very competitive and I let my emotions show. Most of the time what you see is me being upset wit... DAN MARINO Breathing became a painful chore. Her lips turned down while her warm fingers caressed my cheek. Tha... KATIE MCGARRY when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa... DALLY SALAD Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e... LILY COLLINS Learn to love and appreciate yourself more than others because no one can't do so except you unless ... JULIANA AZMI When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... CLAIRE DENIS True Love has many forms. But my true love is her...and her name is B.D.C she is an amazing girl who... MICHAEL HENDERSON My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Pr... DANIEL TAMMET This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to... JAMES LECESNE The whole time my mindset was always to try and get better in spite of what was going on, and in spi... WILLIAM GREEN I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... JULIANNE MOORE I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without comple... PABLO NERUDA I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and ... LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride... PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when,or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride:... PABLO NERUDA I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount o... PAULA DEEN Always tell anyone you love that you love them because does anyone ever really get mad or bothered t... CARL WHITE You really get to know your customers, and that is great, because I love people. You build relations... CAROL DIEGEL I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside t... BARRY WATSON Why do we get so angry at ourselves when we eat foods we love? Do you think guys walk around going, ... MARTINA MCBRIDE My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you ... AFROJACK I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor... BURNING SPEAR (My parents) aren't so much an influence on why I play, but I get my love and my passion for the gam... AMANDA JOHNSON You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desir... JAMES JOYCE I lived here before, cold, lonely, clueless of why I still dwell in this place.Needing to forgive my... TANICA S HALL I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sur... DONALD MILLER I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have ... COLETTE My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on y... PABLO NERUDA True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself. NERISSA IRVING I love you, and it's not the kind of love that wavers. It's the scary kind that doesn't fade. I look... REBECCA YARROS I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it. EMMA BULL I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones... IAN WILLIAMSON Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my... SYLVIA PLATH I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I n... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation ... JULIA ALLEN I hope you find a love like that–one that is all-consuming and powerful that makes you feel like y... JILL SANTOPOLO
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Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a... JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ... JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?" We... JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't... JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ... JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ... JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s... JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT