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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

“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Origine: My Sister's Keeper

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Origine: Handle with Care

“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Origine: Handle with Care

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Small Great Things

Origine: Small Great Things

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”

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Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Origine: Plain Truth

“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”

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Origine: Leaving Time

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Origine: The Tenth Circle

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

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Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Origine: House Rules

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital… Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Origine: Lone Wolf

“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Pact

Origine: The Pact

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Second Glance

Origine: Second Glance

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Origine: My Sister's Keeper

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Origine: The Storyteller

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”

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Origine: Leaving Time

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Origine: The Storyteller

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

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Origine: Vanishing Acts

“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Origine: My Sister's Keeper

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Origine: Nineteen Minutes

“You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.”

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Jodi Picoult

Origine: Leaving Time

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Origine: My Sister's Keeper

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Origine: Handle with Care

“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.”

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Origine: Between the Lines

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”

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Jodi Picoult libro Picture Perfect

Origine: Picture Perfect

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

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Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Origine: Nineteen Minutes

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Origine: The Tenth Circle

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

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Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Origine: House Rules

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

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Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Origine: The Tenth Circle

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

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Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Variante: Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Origine: Perfect Match

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

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Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Origine: House Rules

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