Frases de Jodi Picoult página 19

“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

“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult: Frases en inglés

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”

Jodi Picoult libro Small Great Things

Fuente: Small Great Things

“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Fuente: Plain Truth

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

Fuente: Leaving Time

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Fuente: The Tenth Circle

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital… Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”

Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Fuente: House Rules

“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”

Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Fuente: Lone Wolf

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Pact

Fuente: The Pact

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

Jodi Picoult libro Second Glance

Fuente: Second Glance

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

Fuente: Leaving Time

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Storyteller

Fuente: The Storyteller

“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

Fuente: Leaving Time

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away?"
I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

Jodi Picoult libro Picture Perfect

Fuente: Picture Perfect

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Fuente: The Tenth Circle

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Fuente: House Rules

“Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Fuente: The Tenth Circle

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Variante: Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Fuente: Perfect Match