Handle With Care Quotes:

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rooms, Sticks, Stranger, Handle With Care

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Love, Names, Different, Handle With Care

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Life, People, Handle With Care

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Horse, Coffee, Heart, Lunch Break, Fingernails

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Want, Truth Is, Handle With Care

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Promise, Together, Handle With Care

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hurt, Pain, Long, Self Injury, Handle With Care

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3642, Delphi Classics

topic: Happiness, Art, Care, Handle With Care

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Love, Wish, Care, Foreheads, Handle With Care

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Love You, Names, When You Love Someone, Handle With Care

I should come with a consumer warning, like the labels that say "Handle with care" or "May be hazardous to your health." I am unfit for human consumption. I struggle to articulate how awful and isolating this feels, but I can't find the words.

- Martha Manning

topic: Struggle, Labels, Warning, Handle With Care

I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

- Jodi Picoult

source: "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

topic: Book, Thinking, Circles, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper