What does it feel like? he asked. What does what feel like? Peter thought for a moment. Being at the top. Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. Like if you take one wrong step, she said, you're going to fall.

The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781451694345