Quotes from Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

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

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

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.