Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Jodi PicoultI've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
Jodi PicoultLike the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
Jodi PicoultThere's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
Jodi Picoultthe relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
Jodi Picoulteskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you
Jodi PicoultYes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.
Jodi Picoult