Jodi Picoult Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Differences, People, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

• I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Night

  "My Sister’s Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2005.

• But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Ties, Track

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Advantage, Cloaks, Happenstance

• Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Mistake, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

• Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Numbers, Heat

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.195, Penguin

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