Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead.

a group always feels more like a group when it’s banded together against an enemy. It doesn’t matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you—you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself.

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that Matt had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwitting animal that was well and truly caught, Josie could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details.