More quotes by Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable"
"I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same."
"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"