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Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers.

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“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”

Thinking World Seems Happens Loses Mets Limits Extraordinary

Author:Jodi Picoult

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

People World Looks Real Willing Wind Real World Happily Ever After Ever After

Book:Between the Lines

Source: Between the Lines

“There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.”

Knows World Want Night Wide My Sister's Keeper Sisters Keeper

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.”

Ifs World Looks Together Lying Sides Fire Magic Rocks Circumstances Solitude Ledges

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.”

World Moments Next Memories Imagine Impossible Flower Paper Invisible Magician Sleeves Paper Flowers

Book:Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

“Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.”

World Persons Stories Given Fiction Boxes Persistent Contagious Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Jodi Picoult

“History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.”

Ifs World Looks Stills War Millions Six Jew Discrimination Shakes Holocaust Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.”

World Feels Different Dark Alive Fragile Unreal Replica

Book:Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

“I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless. It just means you fear different things.”

World Believe Mean Different Used Turns Fear Brother Fearless My Brother Different Things Lone Wolf

Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?”

World Way Firsts Believe Stills Country Wanted Crime Punishment Best Way Capital Punishment

Author:Jodi Picoult

“It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.”

World Together Changing The World

Book:Second Glance: A Novel

Source: Second Glance: A Novel

“It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.”

World Mind Able Bits Honor Tiny Hopefully Changing The World

Author:Jodi Picoult

About the Author

Born: May 19, 1966
Known for: Author
Quotes: 1371

Books & Sources

My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A NovelRelated source material

My Sister's KeeperRelated source material

Handle with Care: A NovelRelated source material

The StorytellerRelated source material

Between the LinesRelated source material

The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen MinutesRelated source material

Vanishing ActsRelated source material

My Sister's Keeper: A NovelRelated source material

The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House RulesRelated source material

Sing You Home: A NovelRelated source material

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