18 notes "I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn’t lies." — Jodi Picoult, House Rules

21 notes "Kid says to me, “You play baseball? What position? Left out?” and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it’s importance." — Jodi Picoult, House Rules

65 notes "It’s not gender that makes a family; it’s love. You don’t need a mother and a father; you don’t necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who’s got your back." — Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

36 notes "It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It’s as if you’re in a foreign film, and what you’re saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other." — Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

25 notes "I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong." — Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

34 notes "You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do." — Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

18 notes "Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn’t really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation." — Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

13 notes "Infatuation’s just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that’s when they become real." — Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

0 notes

23 notes "Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what." — Jodi Picoult, Second Glance