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
moving thinking forever
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?
ocean son asking
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
looks hiding persons
I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
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.
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.
want looks look-at-me
...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
want littles different
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.
voice giving forget
What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?
memories heart two
Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
mother father past
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
eight years twenties
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
dream sometimes fathom
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
mother dream real
When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.
feelings drug brain
The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.