Jodi Picoult Quotes

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps." ........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way

Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this.

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.