Plain Truth

by Jodi Picoult

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”

“This is really something,” I said. “To build a whole barn in a single day.” “It only looks like such a big thing when it’s one man by himself.”

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course.

“You can be happy for someone else’s good fortune, but that doesn’t mean you forget your own bad luck.”