Frases de Jodi Picoult

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“Cuando eres adolescente no eres intocable. Eres estúpido.”

“Las cosas existen mientras haya quien que las recuerde.”

“Si no corregimos la dirección en la que vamos, acabaremos en el lugar de donde venimos.”

“gente se ha inventado todo tipo de formas de hacer que las cosas parezcan diferentes de lo que son en realidad. Una habitación puede sumirse en una noche artificial. El Botox transforma los rostros de las personas en algo que no son. El TiVo te hace creer que eres capaz de congelar el tiempo, o al menos de reordenarlo a tu antojo.”

“Sabía muy bien cómo bajar la escalera sin hacer ruido. Ya lo había hecho un par de veces con anterioridad, para encontrarse con Matt en el patio de atrás. Una noche él le había enviado un mensaje de móvil: «Quiero verte ahora». Ella había salido a encontrarse con él vestida con un camisón blanco de algodón, como un fantasma, y cuando él la tocó, por un momento le pareció que iba a escurrírsele entre los dedos.”

“un arma no era nada si no había una persona detrás.”

“Si le das el corazón a alguien y luego muere, ¿se lo lleva consigo?”

“O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable.”

“No necesitas agua para sentir que estás ahogándote, ¿o sí? Cuando”

“Todo el mundo piensa que se cometen errores cuando se es joven—le dijo la jueza a Lacy—. Pero no creo que cometamos menos cuando somos adultos.”

“bajo la luz de la luna, que ni es luz ni es nada, solo un pálido reflejo del sol.”

“Decidí estudiar Derecho por el mismo motivo por el que todo el mundo estudia Derecho: porque no tenía la menor idea de qué otra cosa hacer.”

“Cuando emprendes un viaje de venganza, comienza por cavar dos tumbas: una para tu enemigo y una para ti.”

“¿Cómo piensas que te habrías sentido, de haber sido tú la víctima? Lo medito durante un instante. —Muerto —digo.”

“(F=R/E o, lo que es lo mismo, Felicidad es igual a Realidad dividido por Expectativas)”

“No se puede luchar contra la injusticia del destino. Lo único que se puede hacer es sufrirla y esperar un mañana diferente.”

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

“she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.”

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

“A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

“What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”

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

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

“Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?”

“This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.”

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes… And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”

“If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.”

“don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.”

“This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.”

“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”

“You can run but you can't hide… but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.”

“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”

“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”

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

“Love's a tidal wave," she says.
"Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask.
"No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”

“I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.”

“They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.”

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”