Time Quotes by Jodi Picoult

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

— Jodi Picoult

“If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward”

— Jodi Picoult

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

— Jodi Picoult

“She spent the rest of her time holding on to whatever scraps she had left.”

— Jodi Picoult

“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

“So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.”

— Jodi Picoult

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

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd…

— Jodi Picoult

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got…

— Jodi Picoult

“Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by…

— Jodi Picoult

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under…

— Jodi Picoult

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right…

— Jodi Picoult

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen…

— Jodi Picoult

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so…

— Jodi Picoult

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her…

— 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

There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that…

— Jodi Picoult

“It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat pushed away, at what moment the…

— Jodi Picoult

Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it…

— 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

“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

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll…

— Jodi Picoult

“But forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, You’re not important enough to…

— 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

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

— 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

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

— Jodi Picoult

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

— Jodi Picoult

“And if you don't find what you're looking for?" At Roy's question Addie looked up. "Then all I've lost is time.”

— 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

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult