Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you m... - Jodi Picoult

"When you love someone you let them take care of you."

"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

"The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do."

"Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey."

"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."