I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.
—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller
—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller
Jodi Lynn Picoult (; born May 19, 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 26 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterised as family saga. She frequently centres storylines around a moral dilemma or a procedural drama which pits family members against one another. Although she is often characterised as an author of chick-lit, over her career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, and school shootings. She has been described as, "a paradox, a hugely popular, at times controversial writer, ignored by academia, who questions notions of what constitutes literature simply by doing what she does best."
I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
True love is supposed to make you into a better person―uplift you.
—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With