Jodi Picoult Quotes

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Things can change in the blink of an eye!

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

Life can change in an instant.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.

We need to live our truth. We need to discover ourselves. And no matter how much you prepare for everything, life will always find a way to surprise you.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

Life is a series of surprises.

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed and apartheid in South Africa collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. I don't know anyone who foresaw those events. It seems to me that as a species we are constantly trying to adapt ourselves to the unexpected. In the meantime, we talk as if we are in control, and we're not. This seems to me to be the truth about the twentieth century.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.