What does it feel like?โ he asked. โWhat does what feel like?โ Peter thought for a moment. โBeing at the top.โ Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. โLike if you take one wrong step,โ she said, โyouโre going to fall.
Jodi PicoultI never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
Jodi PicoultShe wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
Jodi PicoultI don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Jodi PicoultMaybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.
Jodi Picoult