“ I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.''But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.''That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?''Be… Jodi Picoult
“ He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable Jodi Picoult
“ Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me i… Jodi Picoult
“ Edward: Wait--you were trying to on me?Susan: Damn straight.Edward: The thing is, I'm not. Straight, I mean. Jodi Picoult
“ His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to… Jodi Picoult
“ She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. Jodi Picoult
“ My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. Jodi Picoult
“ Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. Jodi Picoult
“ Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It… Jodi Picoult
“ But Edward doesn't even flinch; it's as if he's reading the text of me with some magic internal Rosetta stone that makes him understand what I say is not what I mean at all. Jodi Picoult
“ Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. Jodi Picoult
“ When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you. Jodi Picoult
“ The thing about having something hidden in your past is that you spend every minute of the future building a wall that makes the monster harder to see. You convince yourself that the wall is sturdy an… Jodi Picoult
