Quotes from Jodi Picoult

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

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