Jodi Picoult, The Pact Quotes

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it

Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

I can't do this to you, ' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me, ' she said.

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.