“ Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day… Jodi Picoult
“ Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love. Jodi Picoult
“ Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you. Jodi Picoult
“ Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. Jodi Picoult
“ Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves… Jodi Picoult
“ It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth, she said. It's that he loves you too much to risk it. Jodi Picoult
“ It struck Lacy that she didn’t really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing Jodi Picoult
“ It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.It's what we project on them that makes them ugly. Jodi Picoult
“ It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get. Jodi Picoult
“ Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say? Jodi Picoult
“ In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky. Jodi Picoult
“ In the wild, a calf under the age of two will not survive without its mother. In the wild, a mother’s job is to teach her daughter everything she will need to know to become a mother herself. In the w… Jodi Picoult
“ In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did. Jodi Picoult
“ If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn’t going to destroy other people’s lives. Jodi Picoult
“ If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things- that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. Jodi Picoult
“ If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The l… Jodi Picoult
“ I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. —Vladimir Nabokov Jodi Picoult
