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Jodi Picoult

Birthdate: 19. May 1966

Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American writer. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Currently approximately 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. Wikipedia

Photo: LBJ Library photo by Lauren Gerson, https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnews/8579744353/in/album-72157633063162266/ / Public domain

Works

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Handle With Care

Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult

House Rules

Jodi Picoult

The Tenth Circle

Jodi Picoult

Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult

Change of Heart

Jodi Picoult

The Pact

Jodi Picoult

Lone Wolf

Jodi Picoult

Salem Falls

Jodi Picoult

Second Glance

Jodi Picoult

Keeping Faith

Jodi Picoult

Perfect Match

Jodi Picoult

Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult

Small Great Things

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Picture Perfect

Jodi Picoult

Songs of the Humpback Whale

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Harvesting the Heart

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Quotes Jodi Picoult

„You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.“

— Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy (1996)

Love, Marriage

„I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.“

— Jodi Picoult, book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love, Thinking, Time, Personality

„When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.“

— Jodi Picoult, book Handle With Care

Variant: When you love someone you let them take care of you.
Source: Handle with Care

Love

„If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.

Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder.. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.

The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.“

— Jodi Picoult

Stupidity, World, Way, Star

„Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?“

— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Love, Hate, Dreams

„You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.“

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

Love, Perfection, For Wife, love

„I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.“

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Smile

„I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. […] The thing is, they're both you.“

— Jodi Picoult, book The Pact

Source: The Pact

Problem

„There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.“

— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Light, Time

„Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.“

— Jodi Picoult

Silence

„People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.“

— Jodi Picoult, book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

People, Truth, Time

„Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.“

— Jodi Picoult, book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Question

„Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.“

— Jodi Picoult, book The Storyteller

The Story Teller ISBN: 978-1-4767-2783-7 (2013)
Source: The Storyteller

„I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.“

— Jodi Picoult

Love, Way

„Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.“

— Jodi Picoult, book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Dreams

„I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.“

— Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

Thinking, Learning

„When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.“

— Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

People, World

„Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.“

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

God

„It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.“

— Jodi Picoult, book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Love, Thinking, Hurt

„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.“

— Jodi Picoult, book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Love, People, Change, Personality

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