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
getting-what-you-want tales disappoint
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
love-you people lines
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
mother people feelings
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
closets okay
You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
mother kids want
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
silence heavy beads
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
world easy halt
It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
tables realizing my-sisters-keeper
This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.
my-family my-sisters-keeper ought
In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.
thinking certain comfortable
Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?
forgiving way communicate
After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.
looks forgotten bigs
I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.
real way passing
I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.
expectations way beats
Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.