Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.
Jodi PicoultI shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
Jodi PicoultYou don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi PicoultThose eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.
Jodi Picoult