Jodi Picoult Heartbreak Quotations

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.