“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”
"My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
- Jodi Picoult
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"I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"Love sees not with the eyes, but with the heart."
- Beauty and the Beast
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"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."
- Beauty and the Beast
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"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."
- Beauty and the Beast
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"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."
- Beauty and the Beast
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