Jodi Picoult Quotes

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

I've criticized myself over the years.

There are certain images that always haunt me.

Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.