How could you go about choosing something that would hold th... - Jodi Picoult, Mercy

"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."