Jodi Picoult Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happiness, Happy, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

• If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Expectations, What If, World

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

• What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Moving, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

  Jodi Picoult

  Expectations, Might, Honest

• But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Sacrifice, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

• Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Opposites, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1018, Simon and Schuster

• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Simple, Expectations, Comfort

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

• Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Expectations, Way, Beats

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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