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
mother moving long
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
boys eyebrows heroin
A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...
names judging able
As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?
growing-up voice sick
Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
together vases heirlooms
I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
running pain air
You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.
information know-how knows
anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
pay ifs
If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.
first-love love-is care
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
wonderful awareness remarkable
It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?
falling-in-love children grief
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.
want reason human-condition
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
tongue forget tattooed
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
people lost drifting
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?