Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Quotes

• “I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and...”
• “See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And...”
• “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's beca...”
• “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gi...”
• “He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I u...”
• “You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that...”
• “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half...”
• “When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he wo...”
• “See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”
• “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
• “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
• “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
• “well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
• “Dylan Jerome,"the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.”
• “The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.”
• “if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.”