Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Jodi PicoultJust because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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 PicoultThere was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.
Jodi PicoultYou know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?
Jodi Picoult