Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoultis an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 May 1966
CountryUnited States of America
mother children want
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
wells happens asks
They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?
beach turtles sea
When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.
baby tiny
newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
heart voice promise
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.
letting-go mother children
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
dream way happens
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
strong thinking optical-illusions
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
children parent used
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
mother thinking battle
But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper
phoenix mind glitter
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.
believe ties track
But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
thinking opposites people
On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
interesting found very-interesting
I found plain truth very interesting.