Frases de Jodi Picoult página 18

“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.”

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

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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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“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

“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

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Jodi Picoult: Frases en inglés

“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”

Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Fuente: House Rules

“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Fuente: Change of Heart

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Fuente: Change of Heart

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Fuente: Plain Truth

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…. they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.”

Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Fuente: House Rules

“I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.”

Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Fuente: Lone Wolf

“True love can break the most powerful curse”

Jodi Picoult libro The Pact

Fuente: The Pact

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Variante: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Fuente: Handle with Care

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?

Bread, of course.”

Jodi Picoult libro Small Great Things

Fuente: Small Great Things

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller