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 the very act of living is a … - Jodi Picoult

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 the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

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 of the equation is gone?

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Did everyone in jail think they were innocent? All this time Peter had spent lying on the bench, convincing himself that he was nothing like anyone else in the Grafton County Jail—and as it turned out, that was a lie.