Mike had a wife and her name was Terri. She came before me, and I knew that. That was just that. Not that there weren't issues here or there. Not like there wasn't anger. Sometimes I was mad at her, because I felt she did this to herself, and look at what she left Mike to deal with.
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JODI PICOULT It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have al... JODI PICOULT Federal law is quite clear: Air National Guard units cannot be moved without the express permission ... JODI RELL Tuition at our institutions of higher learning is slowly but surely being priced out of reach for mi... JODI RELL When they asked Connecticut, we knew our facts and we had the documentation to back it up and it pai... JODI RELL We have hit the crossroads today. JODI RELL The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses,... JODI RELL We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather ... JODI MEADOWS You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So y... JODI PICOULT Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. JODI PICOULT I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrif... JODI PICOULT Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi... JODI PICOULT See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ... JODI PICOULT I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r... JODI BENSON Lisa called me here in Alabama and told me about this. And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesbur... JODI COLLINS What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt? JODI PICOULT Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ... JODI PICOULT I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giv... JODI PICOULT I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light. JODI LIVON You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one. JODI PICOULT Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he... JODI PICOULT Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and j... JODI PICOULT Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make... JODI PICOULT I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ... JODI PICOULT Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what t... JODI PICOULT I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always unde... JODI PICOULT When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. JODI PICOULT That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how muc... JODI PICOULT Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me. JODI PICOULT If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev... JODI PICOULT Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones... JODI PICOULT We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right.... JODI PICOULT It's choice that makes us human. JODI PICOULT What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha... JODI PICOULT When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the... JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them. JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you. JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do... JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i... JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want... JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ... JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned. JODI PICOULT You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y... JODI PICOULT It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. JODI PICOULT