My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. Jodi Picoult More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle Jodi Picoult jigsaw-puzzlespieceshands When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. Jodi Picoult journeyrevengetwo Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. Jodi Picoult teenagergaysuicide Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him. Jodi Picoult painchoiceshands Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to. Jodi Picoult terrible When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one. Jodi Picoult motherbabythinking I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet. Jodi Picoult powerfuloddsbelieve The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive. Jodi Picoult differencesforeverpeople You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside. Jodi Picoult would-beschoolthinking Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface. Jodi Picoult mattersometimesway There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late. Jodi Picoult dwarvesstarsnight There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth. Jodi Picoult my-sisters-keepereasierwould-be Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world. Jodi Picoult sunsetheartbelieve Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break. Jodi Picoult horsecoffeeheart Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it. Jodi Picoult perseverancemotivationwriting Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed. Jodi Picoult wake-uppiecesmorning When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Jodi Picoult want-somethingwantlying I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us. Jodi Picoult namespeoplethinking Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a paragraph. I can't say it was intentional - but you know what they say about practice making perfect...! Jodi Picoult takenpracticeyears What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead. Jodi Picoult girlschoolmoving
