Frases de Jodi Picoult página 20

“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.”

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

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

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Jodi Picoult: Frases en inglés

“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Fuente: Perfect Match

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”

Jodi Picoult libro Songs of the Humpback Whale

Fuente: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Fuente: The Tenth Circle

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult libro The Tenth Circle

Fuente: The Tenth Circle

“Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

Jodi Picoult libro Second Glance

Fuente: Second Glance

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Jodi Picoult libro Songs of the Humpback Whale

Fuente: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“Love makes life a little brighter”

Fuente: Off the Page

“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

Fuente: Leaving Time

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

Jodi Picoult libro Sing You Home

Fuente: Sing You Home

“You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.”

Fuente: Mercy

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

Variante: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”

Variante: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Fuente: Lone Wolf