Jodi Picoult Quotes about Reality

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

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

Jodi Picoult

Reality, Path, Hurricanes

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

Book, Character, Reality

"Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Jodi Picoult

Reality, Looks, Like Something

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Jodi Picoult

Reality, Monsters, Difficult

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Jodi Picoult

Reality, Miracle, Needs

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

Jodi Picoult

Stupid, Mean, Reality

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

Jodi Picoult

Reality, World, Fantasy

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Jodi Picoult

Wall, Lying, Reality

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

Jodi Picoult

Love You, Reality, People

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Jodi Picoult

Hope, Lying, Reality

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, 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