More quotes by Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

"if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will."
"You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?"
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires"