Quote

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

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
Mind
Use
Therapy
Else
Ego
Someone
Insight
Past
Performance
Problem
Performances
Workings
Music
Entertainment
Slip
Without
Begin
Gather
Much
Pain
Slips

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
Jodi Picoult
Image
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
Jodi Picoult
Image
think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
Image
I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
Jodi Picoult
Image
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
Jodi Picoult
Image
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
Jodi Picoult
Image
Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
Jodi Picoult
Image
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
Jodi Picoult
Image
When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere
Jodi Picoult
Image
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
Jodi Picoult
Image
But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much
Jodi Picoult
Image
History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
Jodi Picoult