As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.
Jodi PicoultShe stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. โYou havenโt seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, Iโm not the great love of his life, the one heโll never forget.โ โYou are to me,โ I say.
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 PicoultOnce you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore
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