“ Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down. Jodi Picoult
“ It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. Jodi Picoult
“ Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the… Jodi Picoult
“ You don't make a friend, Jacob said with a scowl. It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese. Jodi Picoult
“ The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreame… Jodi Picoult
“ You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food. Jodi Picoult
“ She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were… Jodi Picoult
“ But I used to think, Josef says quietly, that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers.(pg 134) Jodi Picoult
“ I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade. Jodi Picoult
“ The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending. Jodi Picoult
“ My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. Jodi Picoult
“ My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen.My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him. Jodi Picoult
“ It's been a long time, I reply, when what I really want to do is ask her what she's been doing for the past fifteen years. If she still drinks tea with milk and lemon. If she's happy. Jodi Picoult
“ I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. Jodi Picoult
