That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
Jodi PicoultHow do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
Jodi PicoultAfter all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.
Jodi PicoultAnna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, weโre polar opposites. Under the skin, though, weโre the same: people think they know what theyโre getting, and theyโre always wrong. (Jesse)
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