“ She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a pie… Jodi Picoult
“ Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. Jodi Picoult
“ People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. Jodi Picoult
“ Over her shoulder was Josie-and for the first time, Alex couldreally see a piece of herself in her daughter. It wasn’t so much the shape of the face but the shine ofit; not the color of the eyes but t… Jodi Picoult
“ Other people look at me and think: But all I see when I look at you is that girl who had memorized all the words to Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by the time she was three, the girl who crawls into bed… Jodi Picoult
“ Or in other words: There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really an alpha all along. Jodi Picoult
“ On one side of the seesaw is my education. My nursing certification. My twenty years of service at the hospital. My neat little home. My spotless RAV4. My National Honor Society-inductee son. All of t… Jodi Picoult
“ No, he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. I am not giving you up.Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use… Jodi Picoult
“ No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. Jodi Picoult
“ Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good lib… Jodi Picoult
“ Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-… Jodi Picoult
“ Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there. Jodi Picoult
“ 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? Jodi Picoult
“ In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path. Jodi Picoult
“ If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? Jodi Picoult
