“ She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands… Jodi Picoult
“ Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. Jodi Picoult
“ I lean against my sister's shoulder. I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.Sure it does, Izzy tells me. But only if you're too dumb to move. Jodi Picoult
“ Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know tha… Jodi Picoult
“ Sara, I ask finally, what do you want from me?I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like, she says thickly. I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back.But she is not the woma… Jodi Picoult
“ [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order t… Jodi Picoult
“ Let me guess, Seven said last night. The first was a rebound. The second was married.How'd you know?He laughed. Because you're a cliché. Jodi Picoult
“ It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride… Jodi Picoult
“ A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat… Jodi Picoult
“ I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. Jodi Picoult
“ Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan. Jodi Picoult
“ I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious.Not if they're over eighteen, he said, shutting the till of the cash register.By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso hold… Jodi Picoult
“ The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if w… Jodi Picoult
“ Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mow… Jodi Picoult
“ Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. Jodi Picoult
“ In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. Jodi Picoult
“ Fumbling in the dark, Josie reached underneath the frame of her bed for the plastic bag she’dstashed-her supply of sleeping pills. She was no better than any of the other stupid people in thisworld wh… Jodi Picoult
