I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? - Jodi Picoult

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

Logan Rourke wasn’t her father, not any more than the guy who’d taken their coins at the toll booth or any other stranger. You could share DNA with someone and still have nothing in common with them