Dead isnโt angels or ghosts. Itโs a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.
Jodi PicoultYou make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.
Jodi PicoultAs a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.
Jodi PicoultAnger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
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