Jodi Picoult Quotes

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I turned 30, and everyone told me I would feel different, and I didn't.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

Adults are only kids grown up

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Ah, there are no longer any children!