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
men monsters known
The only monsters I have ever known were men.
care matter be-kind
Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.
mean may stories
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
grief judging boundaries
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
feelings trying sometimes
sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.
grandmother remember forget
I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.
loneliness mirrors
Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.
revenge different hunger
Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
brother men dragons
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
children grief moving
There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.
fiction stories world
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.
sticks needs sometimes
Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
hands promise enemy
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?
hate trying doe
What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.