Jodi Picoult

You couldn`t have strength without weakness, you couldn`t have light without dark, you couldn`t have love without loss.

Some lessons can`t be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you`re young. [...] But I don`t think we make any fewer when we`re grown up.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

Maybe who we are isn`t so much about what we do, but rather what we`re capable of when we least expect it.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn`t be filled?