Jodi Picoult

if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #salem-falls #life

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#drama #empty #fiction #filled #jodi-picoult

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #people #faith

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#struggle #life

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#obsession #life

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting #love

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#family

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#pain #change

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dating