Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms."
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"I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"You can miss a person you've never known."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod"
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"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 doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it."
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
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