My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans,” I say. “Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”

Kate and I are Siamese twins; you just can’t see the spot where we’re connected. Which makes separation that much more difficult.

“you’re not doing the wrong thing.”

“Your sister,” I say evenly, “is incredibly sick. I’m sorry if that interferes with your dentist’s appointment or your plan to go buy a pair of cleats. But those don’t rate quite as high in the grand scheme of things right now. I’d think that since you’re ten, you might be able to grow up enough to realize that the whole world doesn’t always revolve around you.”

A terrible mom

“Yeah, right, she’s sick,” he says. “Why don’t you grow up? Why don’t you figure out that the world doesn’t revolve around her?”

Period

For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child—it’s

bro? WHAT

“You’re not living, Sara. You’re waiting for Kate to die.”

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.

“Well, that’s where we’re different,” Sara argued. “I’m worried about both our daughters.”

LIes. She's only worried about Anna in relation to Kate.

There is no fire without some smoke.

We are not the first parents to lose a child. But we are the first parents to lose our child. And that makes all the difference.

I represent both of them equally, everywhere, every place. I love both of them equally, everywhere, every place.”

Its illegal to lie on the staand bitch

How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?

You don’t love someone because they’re perfect,” she says. “You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

I wonder if I lose my perspective in being your mother, because I’m so busy being Kate’s.”

You 100% did