Variant: Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

Jodi Picoult

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

Jodi Picoult