Swati Malik

“There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there’s someone who must give.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Maybe we used up all our happiness. Maybe everybody only gets so much.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Back when I was a kid, we used to have a real phone. A landline. And when you were mad at someone, you could slam it down. It’s just not the same with a cell phone.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“There is way too much to explain – my own blood seeping into my sister’s veins; the nurses holding me down to stick me for white cells Kate might borrow; the doctor saying they didn’t get enough the first time around. The bruises and the deep bone ache after I gave up my marrow; the shots that sparked more stem cells in me, so that there’d be extra for my sister. The fact that I’m not sick, but I might as well be. The fact that the only reason I was born was as a harvest crop for Kate. The fact that even now, a major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion. There’s way too much to explain, and so I do the best I can. ‘It’s not God. Just my parents,’ I say. ‘I want to sue them for the rights to my own body.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper