All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
Jodi PicoultThe doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
Jodi Picoult[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
Jodi PicoultIf you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
Jodi PicoultBut Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.
Jodi Picoult