Perfect Match (2002) (edit title/settings)

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• Nina Maurier Frost: Assistant District Attorney
• Caleb Frost: Nina Frost's husband. A stone mason.
• Nathaniel Patrick Frost: Nina's 5 year old son
• Patrick Ducharme: Best friend of Nina Frost. Police officer.
• Jordan McAfee: Add a description of this character.
• Quentin Brown: Prosecuter in Nina's trial.
• Father Szyszynski: Priest at a local church the family attends.
• Fisher Carrington: Attorney representing Nina at her trial.
• Dr. Christine Robichaud: Child psychiatrist.
• Rachel Elizabeth Marx
• Monica Laflamme: social worker
• Peter Eberhardt: Nina's co-worker and fellow prosecutor
• Adrienne: a Transgender woman in jail with Nina
• Gideon: Quentin Brown's son
• Tanya
• Frankie Martine
• Arthur Gwynne: visiting priest
• Marcella Wentworth
• Mason
• Glen Szyszynski: priest at local church - same as Father Szyszynski
• Judge Neal
• Dr. Storrow
• Miss Lydia: Nathaniel's teacher
• Dr. O'Brien
• Miriam Marx
• Esme
• Ashleigh
• Danny
• Evan Chao
• Belle Chasse
• Thomas Lacroix
• Wally Moffett
• Dr. Ortiz
• Mrs. Grady
• Mrs. Fiore
• Moe Baedeker
• Willie
• Emilio
• Teodor Szyszynski
• Bobby Ianucci
• Martin Toscher
• Brendan O'Toole
• Myra Lester
• Myrna Oliphant
• Judge McAvoy
• Margaret Mary Seurat
• Dr. Vern Potter
• Eli
• Olivia Bessette
• Judge Jeremiah Bartlett
• Lettie Wiggs
• Robin
• Coalspot
• Brianna
• Nathaniel quails
• Nathaniel ducks
• dart
• Ms. LaFlamme
• Patrick ducks

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• “Don't judge me until you've seen the view from here. You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed-- the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and-- it turns out-- so does one's conscience.”

  Nina Frost

• “Does fate ever play by the rules? There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.”

  Nina Frost

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• Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.

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• As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. Blood pumps, breath flows, neurons fire. What goes missing is the affect; a curious flatness to voice and actions that, if noted, speak of a hole so deep inside there’s no visible end to it.

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• Justification is a remarkable thing—takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

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• Sin is like ink, it bleeds into a person, coloring, making you someone other than you used to be. And it’s indelible. Try as much as you want, you cannot get yourself back.

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• Is it right to close one cycle of pain if it only opens up another one?

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• It is not what you do with a child that brings you together...it is the fact that you are lucky enough to do it at all.

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• Maybe time is only something you notice when you get old and have less of it at your disposal.

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• Quite simply, when you think you’re incapable of missing, you don’t.

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• Does Fate ever play by the rules? There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

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• When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again. —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Maine
• Biddeford
• Portland
• Stuyvesant
• Louisiana
• St. Anne
• Roanoke
• Franklin

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1. Jodi Picoult (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3566.I372 P47 2002
• Dewey: 813.54

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Adult themes

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Psychological & Suspense
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary