Quote

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

Jodi Picoult

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Reins
Likely
Running
Away
Think
Thinking
Life

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
Jodi Picoult
Image
It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
Jodi Picoult
Image
i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
Jodi Picoult
Image
Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
Jodi Picoult
Image
This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
Jodi Picoult
Image
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
Jodi Picoult
Image
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
Jodi Picoult
Image
It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
Jodi Picoult
Image
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
Jodi Picoult
Image
A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.
Jodi Picoult
Image
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
Jodi Picoult
Image
People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
Jodi Picoult
Image
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
Jodi Picoult
Image
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
Jodi Picoult
Image
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
Jodi Picoult