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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  

✵ 19. May 1966
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Jodi Picoult Quotes

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules

“Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.”

Jodi Picoult

“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy

“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“You can miss a person you've never known.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Just so you know, when they say "Once upon
a time”… they’re lying”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.”

Jodi Picoult

Variant: This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.
Source: Between the Lines

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care