"Could you wipe out your misdeeds with good intentions, like an abacus working in reverse?"No, I don't think so. At least, not when my good intentions just keep leading me to do the most inane things ever.
-Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
"Of course, I didn't know this for a fact, but I often liked to imagine that somewhere out there existed a parallel universe where things had turned out okay"I like to imagine that too, you know.
Mike Gayles, My Legendary Girlfriend
"Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose pink between you -- but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?"It was nothing to you wasn't it? Nothing.
Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle