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Portrait of Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

(1966) Writer United States

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Jodi Picoult is a Writer from the United States, best known for Nineteen Minutes.

Quick Facts About Jodi Picoult

Born: May 19, 1966
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Nineteen Minutes

About Jodi Picoult

Picoult has also written several issues of the Wonder Woman comic series. Her novel Nineteen Minutes is one of her most recognized works. By 2026 her books had sold about 40 million copies and were translated into 34 languages, reaching readers around the globe. In 2003 she received the New England Bookseller Award for her contributions to fiction.

Quotes by Jodi Picoult · Page 2

“Happiness was relative”

Happiness

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“Music is the language of memory”

Inspirational quotes

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Life can change in an instant.

Change

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“Silence has a sound”

Silence

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When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

Baby

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Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

Greatness

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I found plain truth very interesting.

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“so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.”

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Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

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Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

Life

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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

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That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Dream

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To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

Audience

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“Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.”

Child

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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

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I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s…

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I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

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“I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time. Lia”

Change

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“It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone’s life might veer in a…

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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

Aging

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True love is felonious...You take someones breath away...You rob them of the ability to utter a single word...You steal a heart.

Deep love

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“There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.”

Feelings

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“But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours. That's because home…

Family

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“FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters. It’s the sound of your voice, without anyone drowning…

Freedom

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Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's…

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The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And…

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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be…

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“So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just…

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“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two…

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I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks…

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“So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last.…

Children

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There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death…

Birth

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“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason.…

Alienation

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“The thing about having something hidden in your past is that you spend every minute of the future building a wall that…

Time

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“There's a foot of space and world of contrast between Cristina and me yet I too know how hard it is to…

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Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit…

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“Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach…

Girlfriends

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Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as…

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Jodi Picoult by topic

Love (197) Life (172) Time (147) Thinking (122) Parenting (117) People (113) Children (105) Heart (78) Books (66) Mother (64) World (62) Truth (59) Writer (51)