Jodi Picoult Quotes

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

Observation is an old man's memory.

If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.

I've always reflected on the game.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

It felt like a small forever.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

This moment will just be another story someday.

(in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you: "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.