I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: strength
How come people don't do things like that nowadays? You grope around in the back of a sedan in high school and you think you're in love. Nobody gets swept off their feet anymore.
Jodi PicoultThis was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
Jodi PicoultWe take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?
Jodi PicoultMy mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him.
Jodi PicoultThis isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
Jodi PicoultFor the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it’s because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn’t.
Jodi PicoultMarina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.
Jodi PicoultI believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet.
Jodi PicoultSo don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last.
Ask instead: would you do it?
Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love?
Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
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