Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could bre... - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

"Dylan Jerome,"the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

"You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?"

"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"

"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."