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.
Jodi PicoultHow do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?
Jodi Picoultmaybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mixโ not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.
Jodi PicoultYou canโt undo something thatโs happened; you canโt take back a word thatโs already been said out loud.
Jodi PicoultThat's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.
Jodi Picoult