I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A woman is at the funeral of her mother. There, she meets a man she doesn’t know and has never met, who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It has taken me twenty-eight years to be able to admit that I'm glad I did not know my mother until now.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When I was tiny, the county fair came through town. Our parents took us, and got tickets for the rides, even though… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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