Helen Cronk

“You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller