Quotes by Jodi Picoult

About Jodi Picoult:

Jodi Lynn Picoult is 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.
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Go fuck yourself Judge." "Motion denied." answers the judge dryly.

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The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to r...

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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

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Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands mu...

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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.

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For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

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Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the Ther...

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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

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Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

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I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

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

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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

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You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

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We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

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Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.

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I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

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Author Bio

  • NameJodi Picoult
  • DescriptionBetween the lines (2012)
  • BornMay 19, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist; Writer