Jodi Picoult citáty

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„Nemilujete niekoho, pretože je perfektný. Milujete ho aj napriek tomu, že nie je.“

„Na to, aby lož fungovala, sú potrební dvaja ľudia: ten, kto ju hovorí, a ten, kto jej verí.“

“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.”

“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

“You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.”

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”

“Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.”

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

“Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”

“You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy”

“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.”