“ Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. Jodi Picoult
“ Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem? Jodi Picoult
“ Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
“ But forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It’s saying, You don’t get to trap me… Jodi Picoult
“ Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other. Jodi Picoult
“ At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you. Jodi Picoult
“ As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have… Jodi Picoult
“ And I thought—not for the first time—that forgiving and forgetting aren’t mutually exclusive. Jodi Picoult
“ All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air. Jodi Picoult
“ A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod... Jodi Picoult
