Allyson

“When you love someone more than he loves you, you’ll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he’d like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he will crave you the same way you crave him.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“Sometimes, when you don’t ask questions, it’s not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It’s because you’re afraid they’ll tell you the truth.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“and that was how I learned that the state will save a dying man just so that they can kill him later.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“I didn’t know what it felt like to carry a child underneath my heart for nine months, to feel my body give way to make room for hers. I didn’t know what it felt like to hold an infant and rock her to sleep, to find a lullaby in her breathing. But I knew what it was like to be the daughter.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart