If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.
Jodi PicoultMaybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
Jodi PicoultI don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.
Jodi PicoultPeople have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
Jodi Picoult