Jodi Picoult Quotes

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.