There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.
Jodi PicoultThey don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.
Jodi Picoultlove doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
Jodi PicoultThe doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
Jodi Picoult