Jodi Picoult: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 12)

“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?”