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

Book by Jodi Picoult · 4 quotes · Thinking, People, Believe

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

“My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.”

“It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.”