When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
Jodi PicoultLife could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.
Jodi PicoultThere's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
Jodi PicoultBut mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesnโt keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.
Jodi Picoult