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
husband kids talking
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.
water needs like-you
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
hockey hair color
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.
girl children play
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
believe fate blame
Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
what-matters matter opinion
I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
believe stills hard
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
sweet-love giving missing
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
choices humans
It's choice that makes us human.
running work-out way
Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.
disappointing knows
It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
eye light oxygen
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.
sometimes wonder my-sisters-keeper
I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.
baby children sleep
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.