Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed — sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and … - Jodi Picoult

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.