Quote

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

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
Went
Wrong
Even
Really
Answer
Question
Answers

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
Jodi Picoult
Image
i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
Jodi Picoult
Image
People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.
Jodi Picoult
Image
...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
Jodi Picoult
Image
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books
Jodi Picoult
Image
Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
Jodi Picoult
Image
If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
Jodi Picoult
Image
Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.
Jodi Picoult
Image
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
Image
There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
Jodi Picoult
Image
The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
Jodi Picoult
Image
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
Jodi Picoult
Image
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass other times, it made her cry a river.
Jodi Picoult
Image
She had loved him. He knew this he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
Jodi Picoult