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
warning habit shout-out
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
memories flower world
Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.
appreciate people safety
People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
knowing starting-over tasks
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
people good-people
Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.
years swim four
Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.
people way sin
You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
lying secret fiction
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.
moving numbers heat
Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?
beautiful eye light
A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
flames fire leap
When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
book sometimes speak
Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.
teacher deserve
Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?
blow heartache way
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.