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The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

Book by Jodi Picoult · 5 quotes · Thinking, People, Believe

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The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules Quotes

“It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?”

“I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)”