Jodi Picoult Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

• What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hate, Trying, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

• But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

  Jodi Picoult

  Differences, Waiting, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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