I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.
Jodi PicoultThe problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.
Jodi PicoultI truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
Jodi PicoultHe insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever
Jodi PicoultNobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
Jodi Picoult