A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
Jodi PicoultWith 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 I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.
Jodi PicoultIt's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.
Jodi PicoultIt was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.
Jodi Picoult