You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.
Jodi PicoultSometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
Jodi PicoultIt is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.
Jodi PicoultI don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.
Jodi PicoultI could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
Jodi Picoult