The 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 PicoultShe stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. โYou havenโt seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, Iโm not the great love of his life, the one heโll never forget.โ โYou are to me,โ I say.
Jodi PicoultKid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
Jodi Picoult