“ This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed. Jodi Picoult
“ They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided. Jodi Picoult
“ There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monste… Jodi Picoult
“ There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you. Jodi Picoult
“ There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else. Eventually someone brave and stupid will come along and try to fill that hole. But it never works,… Jodi Picoult
“ There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For everyone person who gets, there's someone who must give. Jodi Picoult
“ There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. Jodi Picoult
“ The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are… Jodi Picoult
“ The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it’s the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole. Jodi Picoult
“ The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. Jodi Picoult
“ The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to. Jodi Picoult
“ That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person Jodi Picoult
“ That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing. Jodi Picoult
“ Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning intosomeone she did not want to be. Jodi Picoult
“ Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. Jodi Picoult
“ So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?I don't know, I admit.But I do think that some stains never wash out. Jodi Picoult
“ She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong. Jodi Picoult
“ She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone. Jodi Picoult
