“After all, the last thing Kenosi saw, before he closed his eyes forever, was his mother coming back to him.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story. Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own cheeks started to burn, because I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When did they stop putting toys in cereal boxes? When I was little, I remember wandering the cereal aisle (which surely is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There’s no one in the house, obviously. It’s probably good for you to go there anyway to make sure everything’s all right.”… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Metz remembers the red dress his mother wore, the boxy suit that hung on his frame, the surprising sound of his voice… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made… — 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
