Variant: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Source: Vanishing Acts

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

Jodi Picoult

Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts

“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

The Pact

“Just because you leave someone doesn’t mean you ever let them go.”

Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time