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
mother father love-you
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
children luck belief
No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
perceive happened
There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
believe dna parent
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
pain past ego
Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.
writing might pages
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
art looks might
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
important watches my-sisters-keeper
A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.
hurt growing-up lying
Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.
dark different alive
The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.
heart thinking missing
Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you’ve never known. I learn this over and over again,
weed hate heart
What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
animal thoughtful intelligent
Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.
mean past self
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.