Quote

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

Jodi Picoult

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Like
Crazy
Novels
Hurt
Skin
Welling
Though
Skins
Zombies
Girl
Rise
Sting
Felt
Girls
Zombie
Else
Sweet
Split
Everything
Novel
Splits
Much
Blood
Walked

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
Jodi Picoult
Image
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
Jodi Picoult
Image
This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
Jodi Picoult
Image
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
Jodi Picoult
Image
The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
Jodi Picoult
Image
The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.
Jodi Picoult
Image
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
Jodi Picoult
Image
But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
Jodi Picoult
Image
I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
Image
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
Jodi Picoult
Image
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
Jodi Picoult
Image
People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I only just found you, I can't lose you now
Jodi Picoult
Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
Image
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
Jodi Picoult