I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You don't love someone because they're perfect...You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: imperfection
Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.
Jodi PicoultIf he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
Jodi PicoultI personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
Jodi PicoultBut love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.
Jodi PicoultWords got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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