You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.
Jodi PicoultGay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Jodi PicoultPeople had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
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