Jodi Picoult What Quotations

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

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?

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

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.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.