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 PicoultIt is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
Jodi PicoultJust because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
Jodi PicoultFamilies were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
Jodi Picoult