Jodi Picoult Quotes About Regret

Quotes about: Regret

• My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dad, Regret, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

• This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Book, Reading

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

• I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Names, Rose

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

• let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Grief, Angel

• It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Ocean, Water

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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