Quote

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

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
Way
Strongest
Slash
Greed
Unravel
Tiny
Imaginable
Luck
Tightly
Takes
Rip
Ways
Woven
Family
Bond
Many
Selfishness
Puncture

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?
Jodi Picoult
Image
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
Jodi Picoult
Image
do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
Jodi Picoult
Image
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
Jodi Picoult
Image
There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.
Jodi Picoult
Image
in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
Jodi Picoult
Image
There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
Jodi Picoult
Image
She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.” “You are to me,” I say.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.
Jodi Picoult
Image
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
Jodi Picoult