Allyson

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller