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.”

“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”

“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires”

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?”

“That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy… Just holier-than-thous.”

“I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.”

“You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.”

“I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

“If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.”

“And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

“What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.”

“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”

“I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.”

“I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.”

“people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.”

“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”

“I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in… It broke.”

“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

“It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.”

“do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?”