Jodi Picoult Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving On, Past, Behind You

  Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

• Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Forgiving, Important

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 07, 2015

• The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Coal

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

• Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Ego

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• Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell in love with in the life before, and the one before that. Sometimes, you might miss her - she'd be reborn in post-World War I generation, and you wouldn't come back until the fifties. Sometimes, your paths would cross and you wouldn't recognize each other. Get it right - that is: fall madly, truly, deeply - and perhaps there'd be an eternity carved out solely for the two of you.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Fall, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

• Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Past, Self

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

• I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Loss, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Past, People

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Depression, Past, Reason

• I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Teenager, Moving

• by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hero, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

• I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Woven, Finals

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

• There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Starting Over, Use

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.378, Penguin

• It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Different, Turns

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Past, Chloe

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