A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.
Jodi PicoultAll 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 PicoultIt's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
Jodi PicoultYou know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?
Jodi Picoult