Jodi Picoult Quotes

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

In the real world, it doesn't always go your way like it can on a television show.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don't always end good. Things don't usually end good.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!