What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human....

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

Jodi Picoult

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.

See image

Jodi Picoult

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

See image

Jodi Picoult

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

See image

Jodi Picoult

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

See image

Jodi Picoult

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

See image

Jodi Picoult

What I mean is that those ...

Quotes from the same author