Quote

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

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
People
Away
Ever
Happily
Look
Hardly
Looks
Throw
Right
Kill
Real
Beginning
Would
Wind
World
Willing

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
Jodi Picoult
Image
My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?
Jodi Picoult
Image
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
Image
But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
Image
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
Image
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Jodi Picoult
Image
It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.
Jodi Picoult
Image
She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
Jodi Picoult
Image
And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
Jodi Picoult
Image
A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
Jodi Picoult
Image
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
Jodi Picoult
Image
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
Jodi Picoult
Image
think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.
Jodi Picoult
Image
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn color your hair watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world or you can just jump off it.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.
Jodi Picoult
Image
What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?
Jodi Picoult
Image
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed
Jodi Picoult