Jodi Picoult: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 3)

“If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.”

“I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.”

“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

“I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.”

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

“But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.”

“But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.”

“How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?”

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”