Perfect Match | 
A conversation with Jodi Picoult...
'...we never know anyone as well as we think we do - least of all ourselves. And that we shouldn't rush to judgement until we've walked a mile in someone else's shoes. I can't tell you I would do what Nina did in her situation. . . but I can't tell you I wouldn't, either.' - pg 396
A conversation with Jodi Picoult...
'I love doing research, and research often drives story ideas for me. When necessary, I will go down to State Forensics labs work with detectives, I will ride with policemen...' - pg 395
'...there are some feelings so far-flung and wide, that words cannot cover them.' - pg 388
'I have come so close to losing everything I ever wanted - a life I was too foolish to value until it was nearly taken away.' - pg 388
'Laundry is always a good, mindless start. Ours seems to reproduce at the dank bottom of its bin, so that regardless of how careful we are with our clothes, there is always a full basket every other day.' - pg 387
'I realise that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment that you realize a decision has been made.' - pg 370
'When Nathaniel was born, he waved tight fists in the air, as if he were angry at the world. They softened moment by moment, until I would nurse him and watch his fingers scrabble at my skin, clutching for purchase. I was mesmerised by that grasp, because of all its potential. Would Nathaniel grown up to wield a pencil or a gun? Would he heal with his touch? Create music? Would his palm be covered with calluses? Ink?' - pg 296
'...intent on effecting change, rather than waiting for it to steamroll him.' - pg 295
'There is a woman wearing my clothes and my skin and my smell but it isn't me... Words can't pull me back from the edge. Neither can daylight. This isn't something to get over, it is an atmosphere I need to learn to breathe. Grow gills... take it into my lungs with every gasp. It is a startling thing. I wonder who this person is, going through the motions of my life. I want to take her hand...' - pg 261
'He has spent his life guided by principle and rules... But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life.' - pg 259
'There are no more words between us, each one has a charge on it, an ion that might attach to either him or to me and push us further apart.' - pg 59
'Is it right to close one cycle of pain if it only opens up another one?' - pg 182
'But unfortunately, the legal system doesn't work for people who can't respond within its framework.' - pg 107
'We had been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.' - pg 104
'I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting company to go into business for himself. The one that developed from focusing hard on Nathaniel as he took his first steps, said his first word.' - pg 104
'Patrick has told parents that their teens have died in a drunken car crash. He has supported widows at the graveside of their suicidal husbands. He has listened to the stories of women who've lived through rape. The only way to get through it is to step back, to pretend you are not part of this civilisation, whose members cause such grief to each other.' - pg 55-56
'How do you describe atrocities that aren't supposed to exist?' - pg 55
'How do you find the words to explain that the life you woke up in yesterday is not the one you woke up in today?' - pg 55
'Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready. You will walk down the street and wonder how people can behave as if the whole world has not been tipped on its axis.' - pg 43
'I may be a prosecutor, but I'm also the first to tell you that if you cannot communicate in a certain way, you cannot get justice in the American legal system.' - pg 18
'My son tends to be unusually sunny. He finds music in the stifled sounds of traffic, speaks the language of toads. He never walks when he can scramble; he sees the world with the reverence of a poet.' - pg 11
'...her heart was all out of rhythm, a jellyfish writhing in her chest. When had breathing become something she had to consciously remember to do?' - pg 1 prologue
pickJodi Picoult is one of my favorite authors. Her novels always contain some sort of moral dilemma. What would you do? This one follows a prosecutor who specializes in child abuse cases. Then she finds out her own son has been sexually assaulted. This courtroom drama has several shocking twists and turns. I really enjoyed it. 4⭐️ book 28
"Change your point of view, and the perspective is completely different."
pickLots of surprises in this book. Based upon Nina, a prosecuting attorney whose young son is sexually abused. I‘d want to do just what she does without the oopsie she makes.
I actually want to buy them a lot more books that that.
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#MiaCat has given up, but @BookishMarginalia is still waiting for confirmation that you got your matches, as are #TrickyCat (content because he‘s getting some love) and #BonBonCat . #CatsOfLitsy #CupidGoesPostal #ValentinesBookExchange
Wow....just wow. Halfway through this book and I am mad at myself for having waited so long to pick it up from my bookshelf. Anytime I see a Jodi Picoult book I haven‘t read, I buy it. And every single time, I am glad I did. Her writing is just...beautiful. This novel about the love of a mother is just...beautiful!
📚I confess I've tried audio but enjoy my own reading pace and inflections that live in my head. I do see the merit of listening while road-tripping however.
📚📚storied life of a j fikry, mountain between us, wind is not a river
📚📚📚 American fire 🔥
📚📚📚📚khaled Hosseini, Kristen Hannah, Beatriz Williams, John boyne
#LitsyQuestions @GypsyKat
After one of the worst ever weeks at work, I am recentering at a friend's lovely home in upstate NY. While most of the guests play tournament Scrabble, I am relaxing with several books, including this Jodi Picoult. Absorbing and fast-paced: just what I need this weekend!
pickAs Jodi Picoult's go, it was alright. I enjoy reading Jodi's work for something light in style but complex in plot. I enjoy how she deals with the complications of life as experienced by any ordinary so-and-so.
When you inadvertently coordinate your new Kindle cover with your bedding 😂😂
panMy pick for "threw it across a room" for #day5 of #photoadaynov16. Back in my very early days of book blogging (2007!) I had met @LitHousewife online and we tried to have our own book club. We read a couple of truly bad books, but this was definitely one of the worst. It felt deliberately exploitative and manipulative, with an ending that had me literally throwing the book. While the book club wasn't a success the bookish acquaintance has been!
pickLoved this book- a couple of twist. Jodi Picoult is great a showing all sides of the story
I don't think see is impressed with my book reading instead of playing with her but it's raining. Prefect book day
pan#honestbooktitle I tossed this book against the wall as the final twist came to light. I still want those hours of my life back. It was a Perfect Waste of Time. #24in48
