Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets carried to an arena for our viewing pleasure. By definition, then, there are times it must go missing.

Jodi Picoult


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...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul.

Jodi Picoult

Tags: second-glance belonging-to-someone



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This is where I go, when I go:

It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.

I'm there, but I'm not there.

I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me.

This is where I go, when I go:

To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear.

This is where I go, when I go:

Somewhere completely, unutterably orange.

This is where I go, when I go:

To the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only—the sharps and the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys.

This is why I come back:

To find those white keys.

Jodi Picoult

Tags: anxiety autism



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Anus Mundi

Jodi Picoult


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I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider’s web, spinning a make-believe life. That’s why we read fiction, isn’t it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we’re not the only ones?” - Minka (The Storyteller)

Jodi Picoult

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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed.. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. 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


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Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Jodi Picoult


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Corazon smiled at him. "You know how your mother keeps her Christmas card list? How she sends to people who send her one, and that list gets longer and longer every year?

- "Yeah," Jack muttered. "I have to lick the damn stamps."

-Watch your mouth," Cora reprimanded. "See love's like that. Once you give it, even by accident, you're on that list forever.

Jodi Picoult


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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

Jodi Picoult

Tags: names indian-words name-changes word-meanings



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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


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