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
falling-in-love fall people
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.
father fire heaven
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.
children believe grateful
I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along the way I must have done something right.
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.
mind wonder conversation
I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.