A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?

She felt tears climb the ladder of her throat, and she turned on

The brain could only hold so much; it took roughly ninety minutes to clear its proverbial cache.

there was nothing on God’s green earth that would stop a woman who didn’t want to be pregnant.

Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.