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
rooms sticks stranger
Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.
being-yourself want self-determination
you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
lying matter doe
don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
night every-night my-sisters-keeper
is it like this every night, while we're asleep?
fall falling-apart my-sisters-keeper
something is always falling apart in me.
thinking would-be looks
think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.
alive organ-donor my-sisters-keeper
i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
moving opposites my-sister
so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.
nice knowing fit
there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.
angel house body
Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.
parent gone reason
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
song skins violin
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
children revenge oil
in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.
fighting water mermaid
You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?