(At the request of houseofmirrors)
She became the writer of the DC Comics series Wonder Woman. Also, Nineteen Minutes, Picoult's novel about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, was her first book. 

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." 

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"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." 

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"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it." 

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"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?" 

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"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall." 

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"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride." 

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"When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't." 

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"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look." 

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"And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."

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"You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"