They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

—Jodi Picoult in Keeping Faith

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About Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Lynn Picoult ( PEE-koh; born 1966) is an American writer. As of 2026, Picoult has published 30 novels, several short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In...

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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

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You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

Who I am and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.

—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale

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I am no longer afraid of anger. I find it to be a creative, transforming force; anger is a stage I must go though if I am ever to get to what lies beyond.

—Mary Kaye Medinger

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…you are meant to grow into a true human being. Right now you are to a human being what an acorn is to an oak tree. A good start, that's all. You've got a long way to go, baby, and you're not going to grow into your full potential sitting in front of the laptop, bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in one hand, dick in the other, anime porn boring a hole in your corneas and consciousness. Just a thought.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

—Norman Mailer

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

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