What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth
Jodi PicoultLove's the strongest energy. Katie and I loved each other. We couldn't love each other in my world, and we couldn't love each other in her world. But all that love, all that energy, it had to go somewhere. It went into that baby." His voice broke. "Even if we couldn't have each other, we would have both had him." -Adam, Plain Truth
Jodi PicoultThings had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course. -Plain Truth
Jodi PicoultI had once left Coop because I wanted to see if I could be the best, if I could make my own way in the world. But living for months with the Fishers made me se the value of intrinsically knowing there was someone to help me up if I stumbled. -Ellie, Plain Truth
Jodi PicoultBut identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through—the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.
Jodi PicoultHere are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you’ve never known. I learn this over and over again,
Jodi PicoultSeda on ilmselt veel vähe, kui öelda, et lambad on kõige lollakamad loomad maa peal. Nad jäävad aedadesse kinni. Nad eksivad nelja ruutjalastes aedikutes ära. Nad unustavad, kust süüa leida, ehkki toit on tuhat päeva järjest samal kohal olnud. Ja nad pole väikesed kohevad karvapallid, keda te uinudes loendate. Nad haisevad. Nad möögivad. Nad on kuradi vastikud.
Jodi PicoultSince when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?
Jodi PicoultTag: truth
Doves coo in the rafters above us as she sits down on the blanket, her loathed dress whispering around her. She pops a grape into her mouth and sighs. "This is so unreal. I feel like a princess."
She couldn't have given me a better opening for the conversation I've been hoping to have.
"Funny," I say. "I was thinking the same thing."
Delilah frowns. "You feel like a princess too?
Tag: princess oliver delilah-mcphee p-257 pre-preposal
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
Jodi PicoultTag: children perfect pretend kids damaged spectacular disappoint more-like-us than-we-think
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