Quotes from Jodie Picoult

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more cleary than others. -Plain Truth

Love'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

You heard form Jacob these days? No, which is the way I wish it to be, Aaron said quietly. Ephram shook his head. He was banned from the Church, Aaron. Not from your life. They're the same to me. That's the thing I don't understand, you know. Since forgiveness is the very first rule. -Plain Truth

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course. -Plain Truth

Anger begins with folly and ends with regret-

I'm not going to fit into that English courtroom. I'm going to stand out, with how I dress, and how I think, because I'm not English. I don't know about murder and witness and juries, but I do know how to fix things in my life when they're messed up. If you make a mistake and repent, you're forgiven. You're welcomed back. If you lie, and keep lying, there won't be a place for you. -Katie, Plain Truth

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's because it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.

Scares are just a tresure map for pain you've buried too depp to remember.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Death wasn't something you could control. In fact, it would always have the upper hand.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.