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.”

“It takes two people to make a friendship work”

“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.”

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.”

“Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?”

“Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.”

“if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.”

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character… Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

“Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”

“Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.”

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

“I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.”

“… when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”

“Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.”

“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”

“Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.”

“You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.”

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”

“They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?”

“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”

“Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle”

“It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”

“Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?”

“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.”

“I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.”

“I'm weird.
Everyone says so.”

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

“People change, but only if you give them room to do it.”