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Jodi Picoult è una scrittrice statunitense.

Dopo gli studi di scrittura creativa a Princeton, ha lavorato come copywriter, editor ed insegnante di inglese. Nel 2003 ha vinto il New England Bookseller Award for Fiction e nel 2005 il Premio Alex con My Sister's Keeper.

È sposata con Tim Van Leer, conosciuto a Princeton, dal quale ha avuto tre figli, Samantha, Kyle e Jake. Vivono ad Hanover , assieme a tre cani ed altri animali.

È famosa per aver scritto il romanzo La custode di mia sorella del 2004 da cui è stato tratto omonimo adattamento cinematografico.

Nel 2012 è uscito Incantesimo tra le righe, un romanzo fantasy che Jodi ha scritto insieme alla figlia Samantha. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Maggio 1966
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Jodi Lynn Picoult frasi celebri

“Se dai il tuo cuore a qualcuno e lui muore, lo porta via con sé?
Devi passare il resto della vita con un buco dentro che non può essere riempito?”

Jodi Lynn Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes

“La vera forza de lupo non sta nelle sue tremende mandibole, che possono stringere con una pressione di oltre cento chili per centimetro quadrato. La vera forza di un lupo sta nell'avere quella capacità e sapere quando non usarla.”

Jodi Lynn Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf

“Nella natura selvaggia non ci sono le fiabe, non c'è la storia della Cenerentola. Il lupo di rango inferiore che sembra salire in cima al branco in realtà era sempre stato un alfa.”

Jodi Lynn Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf

“Il fuoco è bello da vedere. Mentre brucia, ipnotizza lo sguardo. Se riesci a contenerlo, ti fa luce e ti riscalda. Soltanto se ne perdi il controllo devi passare alla controffensiva.”

Jodi Lynn Picoult

My Sister's Keeper

“neonatologist.” Immediately”

Jodi Lynn Picoult libro Small Great Things

Small Great Things

“Uomini. Non si può vivere senza di loro… e non li si può abbattere legalmente…
… Ho buttato fuori di casa mio marito otto anni fa, e al suo posto ho comprato un lama. La decisione migliore che abbia mai preso.”

Jodi Lynn Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf

Jodi Lynn Picoult: Frasi in inglese

“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

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Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Origine: House Rules

“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”

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Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Origine: Change of Heart

“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Origine: Nineteen Minutes

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

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Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Origine: Change of Heart

“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Origine: Nineteen Minutes

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

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Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Origine: Plain Truth

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Origine: Handle with Care

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

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Origine: Vanishing Acts

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…. they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”

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Origine: Between the Lines

“I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Origine: Handle with Care

“[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Origine: Handle with Care

“If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.”

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Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Origine: House Rules

“You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Origine: Lone Wolf

“I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Pact

Origine: The Pact

“True love can break the most powerful curse”

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Origine: Between the Lines

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Variante: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Origine: Handle with Care

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Small Great Things

Origine: Small Great Things

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?

Bread, of course.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Origine: The Storyteller

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Origine: My Sister's Keeper

“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Origine: Nineteen Minutes

“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it… You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”

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Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Origine: Change of Heart

“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”

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Origine: Vanishing Acts

“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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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Origine: My Sister's Keeper

“The apple… came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Songs of the Humpback Whale

Origine: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

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Origine: Vanishing Acts

“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?”

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Origine: Between the Lines

“You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?”

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Origine: Between the Lines

“Love is not an equation… It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

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Origine: Vanishing Acts

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