Jodi Picoult: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 5)

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”

“I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”

“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.”

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”

“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”

“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”

“There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.”

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do.”

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”

“Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant… it is always painful”

“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”