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
want looks look-at-me
...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
children parent finding-yourself
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
knowing decision leaving
Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.
looks hiding persons
I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
ocean son asking
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
children kids thinking
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
what-if whole-life ifs
My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?
caring lawyer enough
Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
rooms jacob entropy
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
looks way remember
But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
song heart eye
Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.
wall paper mouths
Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
dark watches matter
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
taught looks librarian
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.