#jodi-picoult

"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."

"If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled."

"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

"Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence."

"Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner."