“ Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy. Jodi Picoult
“ 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 blo… Jodi Picoult
“ She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak… Jodi Picoult
“ She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one… Jodi Picoult
“ My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers. True you couldn't go in there and buy the latest best seller, but… Jodi Picoult
“ Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with. Jodi Picoult
“ Later, as I got to know her, I’d realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me. Jodi Picoult
“ It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids. Jodi Picoult
“ If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh? Jodi Picoult
“ I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the proces… Jodi Picoult
“ Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. Jodi Picoult
“ But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away? Jodi Picoult
