“ Would you rather spend the rest of your life thinking about us, and remembering it as something totally perfect, or would it be better to let it get all screwed up and have that as your memory? Jodi Picoult
“ With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until… Jodi Picoult
“ Where did you go?To the end of the driveway, my mother says. I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out.I wince. Do you ha… Jodi Picoult
“ When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyon… Jodi Picoult
“ When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell your… Jodi Picoult
“ When we were little, Eric and Fitz and I invented a language. I've forgotten most of it, with the exception of a few words: valyango, which meant pirate; palapala, which meant rain; and ruskifer, whic… Jodi Picoult
“ When some-one dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, there are plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where a… Jodi Picoult
“ What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough… Jodi Picoult
“ Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates, like a soul, into the clouds. And then, like everything else, it start… Jodi Picoult
“ Vonita, God rest her soul, used to say that if men were the ones to get pregnant, abortion would probably be a sacrament. The Super Bowl halftime show would celebrate it. Men who had terminated pregna… Jodi Picoult
“ They were different places in that same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later. Jodi Picoult
“ There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because y… Jodi Picoult
“ There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, li… Jodi Picoult
“ There are two types of spirits. One makes the transition to the spirit realm and goes on to whatever comes next. They can still come back to connect with people who are alive, but it’s like dropping b… Jodi Picoult
“ There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt. Jodi Picoult
“ There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back.You can deceive him on purpose.You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.You can break a promise.The… Jodi Picoult
“ The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else who's ever read it. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a h… Jodi Picoult
“ That's a little unrealistic, don't you think?So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out. Jodi Picoult
“ Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. Jodi Picoult
“ Something was missing. I couldn't tell you what it was if you asked but it was off. And if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a… Jodi Picoult
