Behinds Quote by Jodi Picoult

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

— Emily Giffin

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a…

— Ellsworth Kelly

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not…

— Kimberly Quinn

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought…

— J. D. Daniels

Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to…

— Amanda Lindhout

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

— Robert Boswell

I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

— Antonio Porchia

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my…

— Anne Lamott

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

— Rachel Joyce