“ She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust. Jodi Picoult
“ See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it Jodi Picoult
“ Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further. Jodi Picoult
“ People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Jodi Picoult
“ My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame i… Jodi Picoult
“ Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. Jodi Picoult
“ Just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. Jodi Picoult
“ Jacob like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears To… Jodi Picoult
“ I’m sure I’m worth a lot more dead than alive—the sum of the parts equals more than the whole. Jodi Picoult
“ It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A chil… Jodi Picoult
