When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.
Jodi PicoultI knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
Jodi PicoultEveryone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Jodi Picoult