“ Never ask your child a open-ended question, such as Do you want to go to bed now? You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs t… Jodi Picoult
“ My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it. Jodi Picoult
“ My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?Bread, of course. Jodi Picoult
“ My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I… Jodi Picoult
“ Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhe… Jodi Picoult
“ Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before. Jodi Picoult
“ Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours… Jodi Picoult
“ Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person. Jodi Picoult
“ Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too… Jodi Picoult
“ Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each… Jodi Picoult
“ Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn’t nearly asimportant as what was right. Jodi Picoult
“ Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. Jodi Picoult
“ Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole. Jodi Picoult
“ It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship. It’s not always perfect; it’s not always pleasant—but because it is roo… Jodi Picoult
“ It’s a little convenient, isn’t it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn’t make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling y… Jodi Picoult
“ It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying. Jodi Picoult
“ It's a good life lesson, whether or. it you ever work with wolves, Edward.No matter what you do for someone- no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm… Jodi Picoult
