“ As a prosecutor, you've got the burden of proof. As a defense lawyer, all you have to do is introduce a tiny doubt. Jodi Picoult
“ Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering. Jodi Picoult
“ And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep… Jodi Picoult
“ And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail. Jodi Picoult
“ After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too. Jodi Picoult
“ After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken. Jodi Picoult
“ Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, this too shall pass - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, comp… Jodi Picoult
“ A trial was a stupid word, consideringthat an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period. Jodi Picoult
“ A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order. Jodi Picoult
“ When people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. Jodi Picoult
“ He glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter. Jodi Picoult
“ What makes a family a family isn’t doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong. Jodi Picoult
“ We have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises. Jodi Picoult
“ The part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers Jodi Picoult
“ Tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas. Jodi Picoult
“ She didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact of… Jodi Picoult
“ Pro-choice’ is a misnomer. There is not really an issue of choice at all. It is against the law to cut short someone’s life, period. To say that a fetus is not a life is to split hairs, since all majo… Jodi Picoult
“ Parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. Jodi Picoult
“ It’s quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is it the writer, who crafted it? The characters, who carry the plot forward? Or you, the reader, who breathes life into them? Or perhaps none of the thr… Jodi Picoult
