Frases de Jodi Picoult página 16

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

Nineteen Minutes

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

Nineteen Minutes

“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.”

Nineteen Minutes

“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.”

Nineteen Minutes

“con su visión recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver.”

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult Frases y Citas

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

Nineteen Minutes

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

Nineteen Minutes

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

Nineteen Minutes

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

Nineteen Minutes

“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.”

Nineteen Minutes

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

Nineteen Minutes

“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.”

Las normas de la casa

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

Las normas de la casa

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

Nineteen Minutes

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

Las normas de la casa

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

Nineteen Minutes

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult: Frases en inglés

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”

Jodi Picoult libro Small Great Things

Fuente: Small Great Things

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

Jodi Picoult libro Picture Perfect

Fuente: Picture Perfect

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.”

Jodi Picoult libro Picture Perfect

Fuente: Picture Perfect

“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”

“I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.”

Jodi Picoult libro Harvesting the Heart

Fuente: Harvesting the Heart

“A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.”

Jodi Picoult libro Second Glance

Fuente: Second Glance

“Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

Jodi Picoult libro Keeping Faith

Fuente: Keeping Faith

“You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Fuente: Perfect Match

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“Men. You can't live with them… and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too.. but I've never had that kind of courage.”

Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Fuente: Lone Wolf

“We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?”

Fuente: Mercy

“I’m the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

Fuente: Leaving Time

“It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that thereno black or white. There are gradations of gray.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Fuente: Perfect Match