“ It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same. Jodi Picoult
“ It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, fee… Jodi Picoult
“ It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll h… Jodi Picoult
“ It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's. Jodi Picoult
“ It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you’ve never truly… Jodi Picoult
“ It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him… Jodi Picoult
“ It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there. Jodi Picoult
“ In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. Jodi Picoult
“ In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect your family. -Lucas Jodi Picoult
“ Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawl… Jodi Picoult
“ If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened. Jodi Picoult
“ If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?Make them stay.And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?Ellie shrugged. I don't know.Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave firs… Jodi Picoult
“ If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it. Jodi Picoult
“ If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around,… Jodi Picoult
“ If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of.If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yours… Jodi Picoult
“ If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As Jodi Picoult
“ I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and… Jodi Picoult
