If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
Jodi PicoultHis hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.
Jodi PicoultIn the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
Jodi PicoultWith these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.
Jodi Picoult