You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. Jodi Picoult More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human. Jodi Picoult thoughtfulintelligentanimal I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. Jodi Picoult mightlooksart Happiness is what you choose to remember. Jodi Picoult you-chooseremember You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan. Jodi Picoult differencesdreammotivational Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer. Jodi Picoult noticingfearanswers Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. Jodi Picoult my-sisters-keeperwantsometimes We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any. Jodi Picoult skycloudsinteresting Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again. Jodi Picoult missingheartthinking Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem. Jodi Picoult egopainpast How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? Jodi Picoult lossheartdeath Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. Jodi Picoult forget-youdetailssometimes The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits. Jodi Picoult alivedifferentdark What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. Jodi Picoult weedhateheart Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe. Jodi Picoult dnaparentbelieve I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. Jodi Picoult funny-parentparentingmother There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it. Jodi Picoult perceivehappened I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period. Jodi Picoult communicationfacesfacts You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake. Jodi Picoult eyepathmistake When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. Jodi Picoult confidenceself-esteemmotivational But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough. Jodi Picoult good-enoughenoughpeople
