I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.
Jodi PicoultThat's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person
Jodi PicoultOnce you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
Jodi PicoultI know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
Jodi PicoultAs Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
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