1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

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

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

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

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

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.