"When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting the absence of old Boston Celtics coasters and the tangle of fishing poles, the old dartboard from a Scots pub, the toolbox and downhill skis, the silky patterned ties which sat in the base of one box like a writhing mass of snakes. Without these things, one tended to notice the bright eyelet curtains, the vase filled with yawning crocuses, a needlepoint pillow.""
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Short story writers from the United StatesJews from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesNovelists from New York (state)Women born in the 1960s
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Prologue, pg. 1
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jodi_Picoult
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Jodi Picoult
37 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Jodi Picoult →
Related Quotes
"When he gave it to her that day, she’d held it up to the light, turning it back and forth, until his hands had come o…"
"In the moments before, she laid a hand on his arm. 'No matter what,' she said, giving him a look, 'you cannot stop."
"Allie had trouble convincing herself that the reason they had gotten married years later did not have to do with the …"
"He certainly wasn’t about to let a murderer off the hook because the man was his cousin. And bending the laws would b…"
"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love firs…"
"There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give."
"WE ARE ALL, I SUPPOSE, beholden to our parents—the question is, how much?"
"They sat me down and told me all the usual stuff, of course—but they also explained that they chose little embryonic …"
"Everyone broke up in laughter, as Lacy watched. Alex, she realized, could fit anywhere. Here, or with Lacy’s family a…"
"The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to …"