Nineteen Minutes Quotes

“Motinystė nuspalvino Leisės gyvenimą ryškesnėmis spalvomis; ji netilpdavo savam kaily nuo suvokimo, kad jos gyvenimas nė negalėtų būti sklidinesnis. Nesuprasdavo anuomet, kad kai tavo vizija esti tokia ryški ir tikroviška, gali ja susižeisti. Kad tik patyrusi tokią pilnatvę gali iki galo suprasti, kaip skauda jausti tuštumą.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Jei atiduodi kam nors savo širdį, o tie žmonės miršta, ar jie nusineša ją su savim? Ar likusią amžinybės dalį praleidi su kiauryme, kurios neįmanoma užpildyti?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Kai gimė vaikai ir Luisas jautėsi toks kone absurdiškai laimingas, kad tragedija regėjosi tiesiog neišvengiama, jis žaisdavo mintyse tokį žaidimą. Gulėdavo lovoje ir prisiversdavo pasirinkti, ko pirmiausia sutiktų netekti: santuokos, darbo, kurio nors vaiko. Jam buvo įdomu, kiek žmogus galėtų pakelti, kol virstų nuliu.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“За девятнадцать минут можно подстричь лужайку перед домом покрасить волосы, посмотреть период хоккейного матча. За девятнадцать минут можно испечь лепешку или запломбировать зуб, можно сложить свежевыстиранное белье семьи из пяти человек.
За девятнадцать минут можно остановить мир, или просто уйти из него.”
― Джоди Пиколт, Nineteen Minutes

“one person’s trauma is another’s loss of innocence.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“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, Nineteen Minutes

“If everyone else’s opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Estadísticas aparte, Lewis pasaría a la historia por ser el economista que había ideado una fórmula para la felicidad: R/E, o, lo que es lo mismo, Realidad dividido por Expectativas. Había dos caminos para ser feliz: o bien mejorar la realidad, o bien rebajar las expectativas.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Etadísticas aparte, Lewis pasaría a la historia por ser el economista que había ideado una fórmula para la felicidad: R/E, o, lo que es lo mismo, Realidad dividido por Expectativas. Había dos caminos para ser feliz: o bien mejorar la realidad, o bien rebajar las expectativas.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Sabía que no era lo mismo algo que te hiciera feliz o algo que no te hiciera desgraciado. El truco estaba en autoconvencerse de que eran una sola cosa.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask . . . with nothing beneath it?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“A staccato kiss,”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Don’t blame yourself; this isn’t your fault,”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“In her experience, the moment you showed you were weak in front of someone, they'd use it against you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“today to find whether or not”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“You've never gone down the street and had someone cross it just because you're black. You've never had someone look at you with disgust because you're holding a baby and you forgot to put on your wedding ring. You want to do something about it-take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots-but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling, Jordan. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“No. Because when you love someone, no matter what you tell yourself, it stops being a job."

"What does it become?"

Patrick thought for a moment. "Revenge.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Often, with fragile witnesses or young children, they'd plant a person as a focal point to make testifying less scary. To make them feel that out of that whole crowd of people, they had at least one friend.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask...with nothing beneath it?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“And then come September, they fell back in step as if they'd never missed a beat. That, Peter figured, was the very definition of a best friend.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you’d only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something’s getting hurt. It”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“She wondered if grief could make time run faster, like a glitch in a clock.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it, right?” Lacy”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“When the life left a person, it wasn’t by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“It’s post-traumatic stress disorder. When these women go ballistic and shoot their husbands or slice off their dicks, they aren’t thinking about the consequences . . . just about stopping the aggression.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“one person’s trauma is another’s loss of innocence. Ervin”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. *”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes