How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
Jodi PicoultEnergy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
Jodi PicoultMaybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Jodi PicoultSometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Jodi Picoult