Jodi Picoult Time Quotations

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.