Jodi Picoult

"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"

"What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these…"

"How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he desc…"

"When you love someone you let them take care of you."

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

"I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter…"

"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."

"What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?"