well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to d... - 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."

"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"

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

"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."

"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?"