Time Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time. Lia”

— Jodi Picoult

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

— Jodi Picoult

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to…

— Jodi Picoult

“At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.”

— Jodi Picoult

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

— Jodi Picoult

“All I’m saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.”

— Jodi Picoult

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

— Jodi Picoult

The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my…

— Jodi Picoult

“My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was…

— Jodi Picoult

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole…

— Jodi Picoult

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once…

— Jodi Picoult

“Best place to be?" Adrienne asks after a moment. On the other side of this wall. In my bed, at home. Anywhere…

— Jodi Picoult

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could…

— Jodi Picoult

“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.…

— Jodi Picoult

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what…

— Jodi Picoult

“I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to…

— Jodi Picoult

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you…

— Jodi Picoult

“I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the…

— Jodi Picoult

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie…

— Jodi Picoult

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd…

— Jodi Picoult

“Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind.…

— Jodi Picoult

I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall…

— Jodi Picoult

She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his…

— Jodi Picoult

“The thing about having something hidden in your past is that you spend every minute of the future building a wall that…

— Jodi Picoult

“Things break all the time. Glass, and dishes, and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a…

— Jodi Picoult

“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "To make me forget . . . that you forgot about me?"…

— Jodi Picoult

“Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've…

— Jodi Picoult

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but…

— Jodi Picoult

“She is quiet for a moment. "have you ever been swimming in the summer", she asks, "when a cloud comes in front…

— Jodi Picoult

“We all do it, you know. Distract ourselves from noticing, how time's passing. We throw ourselves into our jobs...We fill up our…

— Jodi Picoult

it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection…

— Jodi Picoult

“People always want to know what it feels like, so I’ll tell you: there’s a sting when you first slice, and then…

— Jodi Picoult

“A rain of pebbles from overhead makes me glance up in time to see Ruthann step onto the lip of the cliff,…

— Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

— Jodi Picoult

“This wasn't the first time he'd be saving her by letting her go.”

— Jodi Picoult

“This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.”

— Jodi Picoult

“On that first date, I asked him what he saw in me. And he said, My future.”

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You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

— Jodi Picoult

“Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.”

— Jodi Picoult