The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult

“Power isn’t doing something terrible to someone who’s weaker than you, Reiner. It’s having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

History isn’t about dates and places and wars. It’s about the people who fill the spaces between them.

I don’t believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it’s just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.