01c. 1966 ADChange isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
02c. 1966 ADSara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back."But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
03c. 1966 ADThere is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
04c. 1966 ADAnd just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
05c. 1966 ADEvery baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
06c. 1966 ADMemories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
07c. 1966 ADTaking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans," I say. "Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
08c. 1966 ADHistory isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
09c. 1966 ADI always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
10c. 1966 ADScars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
11c. 1966 ADYou didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
13c. 1966 ADJust because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
14c. 1966 ADShe sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
15c. 1966 ADIt's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
16c. 1966 ADWhen you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
17c. 1966 ADWhen you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
18c. 1966 ADIt was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help?I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
19c. 1966 ADSo much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
20c. 1966 ADBut Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
21c. 1966 ADThe music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
23c. 1966 ADI wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
24c. 1966 ADTo find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
