If you didn't remember something happening, was it because i... - Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first,"Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."

"If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled."

"She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck."