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
perfectly-normal might looks
An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.
cat wind needs
You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.
ready ifs happens
Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.
doors decision waiting
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
feels-just space substance
...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.
persons stills
How far can a person go... and still live with himself.
baseball eye skulls
Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.
eye forever
How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
my-sister ends
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
baseball stars kids
Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
guy might path
The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.
said loud happened
You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.
doubt rooms sound
Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...
differences convincing-yourself unhappy
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.