Jodi Picoult Quotes

You can divide my life into two.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

My life has been about big changes.

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions.

'Rent' was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

I think that's a universal theme, you know: we don't know who we're going to meet tomorrow. And that person might change your life entirely. There's always that possibility, and while you're not necessarily actively seeking it, you have that desire deep down.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

I just feel like my life changed in so many ways, and I'm just taking it all in.

During the pregnancy and stuff, I knew I had a daughter coming but when she finally got here that is when it really hit me. Ever since that day, I look at life a lot differently.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.