To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.
Jodi PicoultI used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesnโt mean youโre fearless. It just means you fear different things.
Jodi PicoultA sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
Jodi PicoultWe have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.
Jodi PicoultI thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?
Jodi Picoult