What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.

The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781476703893