Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to oneโs advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
Jodi PicoultIโd much rather pretend Iโm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
Jodi PicoultSometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Jodi PicoultI think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
Jodi PicoultEach memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.
Jodi Picoult