...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts.
“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”
“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”
“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ...”
“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”
“Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.”
“World is not like what you see”
“What you see is what suffices you”
“Love comes unseen we only see it go. ”
“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get i...”
“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”
“I want, I dont want.How can one live with such a heart?”