But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.