Jodi Picoult Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Gay, Choices

• I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Differences, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Thinking, Choices

• It's choice that makes us human.

  Jodi Picoult

  Choices, Humans

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

• No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Wall, Hands

• I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loving Life, People, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Land, Funny Things

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

• ...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Choices, Goes On

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Hands, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

• There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Choices, Balance, Too Late

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

• 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

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