Jodi Picoult Quotes About Guilt

Quotes about: Guilt

• I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Heart, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

• I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.250, Penguin

• A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Autism, Guilt

  Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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