"My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."

- Jodi Picoult

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not."

- Jodi Picoult

"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

- Jodi Picoult

"I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him."

- Jodi Picoult