More quotes by Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

"There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"
"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?"
"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."
"Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person."
"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations."