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.“

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”

“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?”

“Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.”

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

“Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.”

“Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”

“Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.”

“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”

“Happiness is what you choose to remember.”

“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”

“I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice…. sure it does… but only if you're too dumb to move.”

“What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.”

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”

“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”

“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

“Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home”

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

…"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

“After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic… only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?”

“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”

“I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.”

“And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded”

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

“I know you love me. The question is, how much?”

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”

“Lie to yourself until it's true.”