“ Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the… Jodi Picoult
“ As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child. Jodi Picoult
“ She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like t… Jodi Picoult
“ How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off. Jodi Picoult
“ The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned. Jodi Picoult
“ How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? Jodi Picoult
“ The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me. Jodi Picoult
“ When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires Jodi Picoult
“ The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I’ve come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as… Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. Jodi Picoult
“ God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check. Jodi Picoult
“ He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever Jodi Picoult
“ This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might n… Jodi Picoult
“ The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape vict… Jodi Picoult
“ It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love of my kids, period, and they're all your favorites in different ways. But ask any parent who's been… Jodi Picoult
“ The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. Jodi Picoult
