“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com