Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.
Jodi PicoultShooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.
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 PicoultA lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
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