Jodi Picoult Quotes

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around

perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.