Vera

“Get out," Emilia growled, in a voice she had never heard come from her throat. "I am more than this. It does not matter what you see when you look at me, because you will never know me the way I know myself. And even if I am the only person in the world with that knowledge, it does not make it any less real.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name

“The most extraordinary moment of any show was the hiccup of time between the last line and the applause. It took only a heartbeat for the audience to leave the world of the play to regain footing in this one—but, oh, those seconds were precious. It was the proof that they’d taken a journey; and that they’d come home changed.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name

“If I'm in the closet", he said, "I might as well do something there.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name

“Maybe there was another girl in the auditorium today who would be bolstered to say no when she was pressured to say yes. Maybe there was someone in power who would pause before they crossed a line. Maybe there needed to be more stories like this, not fewer.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name