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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“[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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“True love can break the most powerful curse”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.”

“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”

“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it… You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”

“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”

“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.”

“The apple… came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.”

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?”

“You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?”

“Love is not an equation… It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

“I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.”