Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
Jodi PicoultMy dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
Jodi PicoultMemories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
Jodi PicoultThe thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.
Jodi PicoultAnd just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
Jodi Picoult