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Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes, published on March 9, 2007, is a novel by Jodi Picoult. It was her first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. This book is about a school shooting, and focuses on the events leading up to and following the incident.

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“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

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“if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.”

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“Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?”

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“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

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“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

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“Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.”

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“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

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“Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?”

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“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”

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“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

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“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”

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

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“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

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“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”

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“To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.”

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“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”

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“Happiness is what you choose to remember.”

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“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

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“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?”

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