I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move. - Jodi Picoult

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.