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I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.


Jodi Picoult

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JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...
JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack.

There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru...
JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin...
JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m...
JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...
JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...
JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ...
JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s...
JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...
JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...
JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y...
JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti...
JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee...
JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?
JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ...
JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of (
JODI PICOULT When you read the art,
JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.
JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w...
JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa...
JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th...
JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e...
JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth.
JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l...
JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug...
JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D...
JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...
JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...
JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...
JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon...
JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al...
JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar...
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