It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
Jodi PicoultShe 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.
Jodi PicoultI wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
Jodi Picoult