Jodi Picoult Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Perfect, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.865, Simon and Schuster

• You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

  Jodi Picoult

  Disappointment, Mistake, Believe

• Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Mistake, Sight

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

• The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, People, Done

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

• If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Starting Over, Months

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

• I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Loneliness, Ordinary Days

• I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Want, Same Mistakes

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.412, 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

• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

• if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Long Ago, Starting Over

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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