Plain Truth

The Best Bits of Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult:

"In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.”  

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

“The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.”  

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”  

“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”  

“...I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.”  

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”