Sara Fitzgerald Quotes

“For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent my hit a child--it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”
― Jodi Picoult

“I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.”
― Jodi Picoult

“When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and maybe we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up—as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I once folded for her was doll-sized; as if I can still see her dancing in lazy pirouettes along the lip of the sandbox. Wasn't it yesterday that her hand was only as big as the sand dollar she found on the beach? That same hand, the one that's holding a boy's; wasn't it just holding mine, tugging so that I might stop and see the spiderweb, the milkweed pod, any of a thousand moments she wanted me to freeze? Time is an optical illusion—never quite as solid or strong as we think it is.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper