Jodi Picoult, Mercy

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"

"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride."