Jodi Picoult Might Quotations

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.

Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover-up coating a zit, because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting, you hadn't completely given up.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

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.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

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

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.