More quotes by Jodi Picoult

"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."
"Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey."
"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."
"You don't have to say I love you to say I love you,"you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."..."Can't you hear it?"you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."
"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."