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
marine needs treasure
What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
book adventure forever
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
views lovely able
I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.
baby littles mystery
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?
past starting-over use
There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.
would-be way ifs
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
hurt cutting bleeding
It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.
hurt watches alex
I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
thinking broken promise
I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
imagine certainty sixth-sense
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
differences waiting next
But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.
rocks two once-upon-a-time
It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.
broken different finding-someone
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.
letting-go peers body
There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.