Jodi Picoult Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Decision, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

• The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sleep, Night, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

• you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hate, Decision, Made

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

• Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Loss, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Knowing, Decision, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

• Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

  Jodi Picoult

  Husband, Men, Llamas

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

• But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Decision, Making Love

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

• Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Years, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

• When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doors, Decision, Waiting

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

• I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Decision, Realizing

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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