"My Sister's Keeper" Quotes
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult explores the moral and emotional complexities faced by a family when a young girl sues her parents for medical emancipation, challenging her expected role as a genetic donor for her ill sister.
fiction | 423 pages | Published in 2004
Quotes
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parent who loses a child.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
You were born with the ability to change someone's life - don't ever waste it.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
There are two reasons not to tell the truth: because lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Once upon a time is how stories begin.
It's easier to jump out of a plane – hopefully with a parachute – than it is to take responsibility for your own life.
There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there’s someone who must give.
If you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
