“My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger.… — 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 see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What do parents look like?" "You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.' There is,' I said, and Charlotte… — 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 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
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You were not really in the area,” she says now. “You look just like your father used to look when he lied… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something.… — 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
It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's… — 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
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize… — 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
Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it’s because you can… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a… — 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
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You’d think that the hardest part of an experience like this is the moment the mother gives you her child, but it’s… — 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
“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
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
“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
“I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her… — 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
“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
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
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
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
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
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
“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
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
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