Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
Jodi Picoult
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Instead
Terrified
Seen
Edge
Fall
Ships
Dream
Edges
Risked
Ends
Falling
Sailed
Must
Discover
Explorers
World
Places
Wondered
Dreams
Amazed
More quotes by Jodi Picoult
There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
Jodi Picoult
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
Jodi Picoult
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
Jodi Picoult
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
Jodi Picoult
I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
Jodi Picoult
I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
Jodi Picoult
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
Jodi Picoult
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
Jodi Picoult
She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
Jodi Picoult
There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
Jodi Picoult
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
Jodi Picoult
There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.
Jodi Picoult
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
Jodi Picoult
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
Jodi Picoult
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
Jodi Picoult
I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
Jodi Picoult
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
Jodi Picoult
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
Jodi Picoult
They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
Jodi Picoult
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
Jodi Picoult