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.”

“you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?”

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

“We Pisces, we're a special breed.”

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

“Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?”

“Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.”

“She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.”

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”

“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”

“I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.”

“If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.”

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

“God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.”

“I only just found you, I can't lose you now”

“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

“parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.”

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”