There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
Jodi PicoultThe nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers weโre desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.
Jodi PicoultWhat is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.
Jodi PicoultThis is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.
Jodi Picoult