Frases de Jodi Picoult página 7

“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

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?”

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult: Frases en inglés

“It's choice that makes us human.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Fuente: House Rules

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Fuente: Lone Wolf

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Fuente: Change of Heart

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Variante: Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

Jodi Picoult libro Sing You Home

Fuente: Sing You Home

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

Fuente: Between the Lines

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

Jodi Picoult libro Picture Perfect

Fuente: Picture Perfect

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

Jodi Picoult libro Lone Wolf

Fuente: Lone Wolf

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

Jodi Picoult libro Keeping Faith

Fuente: Keeping Faith

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

Jodi Picoult libro Nineteen Minutes

Fuente: Nineteen Minutes

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Fuente: My Sister's Keeper

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Fuente: Handle with Care

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”

Jodi Picoult libro Handle With Care

Variante: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Fuente: Handle with Care

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”

Jodi Picoult libro House Rules

Fuente: House Rules