“ When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have too options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it. Jodi Picoult
“ Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it;… Jodi Picoult
“ Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her. Jodi Picoult
“ What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty. Jodi Picoult
“ What one person takes away from a book might be very different from what the next person takes away -- almost as if the story is altered depending on who's reading, where, and when. But then, maybe al… Jodi Picoult
“ What does it feel like? he asked.What does what feel like?Peter thought for a moment. Being at the top.Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did thre… Jodi Picoult
“ What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away? Jodi Picoult
“ Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall for man she can never have. Jodi Picoult
“ Well, I had the other problem, I told him. I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in.What happened then?What else, I said. It broke. Jodi Picoult
“ We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be. Jodi Picoult
“ We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question. Jodi Picoult
“ Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. Jodi Picoult
“ Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their… Jodi Picoult
“ Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay? Jodi Picoult
“ To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell. Jodi Picoult
“ Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortificati… Jodi Picoult
“ This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. He should have just taken Juliet and run away with her, swallowed his pride and worked at some medie… Jodi Picoult
“ This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay. Jodi Picoult
“ This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out. Jodi Picoult
