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
spiritual punishment exclusive
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.
loss gone paradox
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
mother-daughter mother-and-daughter mom-and-daughter
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
reading home house
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
views way looks
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
people enough good-enough
But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
grief mean joy
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
desperate holes bigger
The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
inspirational kindness people
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
daughter hands giving
Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.
law stronger needs
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
fitting things-to-do stills
I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.
writing garbage force
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.
girl moving school
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.