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
would-be way ifs
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
hurt watches alex
I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
imagine certainty sixth-sense
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
differences waiting next
But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.
rocks two once-upon-a-time
It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.
broken different finding-someone
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.
letting-go peers body
There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.
getting-what-you-want tales disappoint
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
love-you people lines
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
mother people feelings
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
closets okay
You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
mother kids want
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
silence heavy beads
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
world easy halt
It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.