Jodi Picoult Quotes

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

If you hide behind the things you don’t want to talk about then you’re going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

Sometimes sex is just a way to escape having to talk to that person.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I collected a great deal of material, including a number of banal, irrelevant photos, and then in the course of my work I came back to the very pictures I had actually wanted to avoid, which summed up the various stories.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

Are you running away from something?

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.