Frases de Jodi Picoult

„Entre uma boa acção e uma má acção existem mil tons de cinzento.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

Perfect Match

„Eis a minha opinião: não me parece que as religiões se baseiem em mentiras, mas também não me parece que se baseiem em verdades. Acho que surgem devido ao que as pessoas precisam na altura.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Change of Heart

„Quem diria que as palavras que nunca chegamos a dizer assentassem tão pesadamente?“

—  Jodi Picoult, livro The Tenth Circle

The Tenth Circle

„Em dezanove minutos podemos cortar a relva do jardim, pintar o cabelo, assistir a um terço de um jogo de hóquei. Em dezanove minutos podemos fazer scones ou arranjar um dente no dentista; podemos dobrar a roupa de uma família de cinco pessoas… Em dezanove minutos podemos parar o mundo, ou podemos simplesmente saltar para fora dele. Em dezanove minutos podemos vingar-nos.“

—  Jodi Picoult

„Aprendi com a minha própria filha que não precisamos estar acordados para chorar.“

—  Jodi Picoult

My Sister's Keeper

„Há um preço para tudo. Podemos ter uma bebé linda, mas ficamos a saber que tem uma incapacidade. Movemos céus e terra para fazer essa criança mais feliz, mas deixamos o nosso marido e a nossa filha tristes. Não há nenhuma balança cósmica onde possamos pesar os nossos actos; aprendemos demasiado tarde quais as escolhas que estragam o equilíbrio frágil.“

—  Jodi Picoult

„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.“

—  Jodi Picoult

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

—  Jodi Picoult, livro Small Great Things

Fonte: Small Great Things

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

—  Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Fonte: Change of Heart

„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.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Fonte: Change of Heart

„The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.“

—  Jodi Picoult, livro Sing You Home

Fonte: Sing You Home

„Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Fonte: My Sister's Keeper

„When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.“

—  Jodi Picoult

Fonte: Leaving Time

„I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.“

—  Jodi Picoult

Fonte: Leaving Time

„Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.“

—  Jodi Picoult, livro Sing You Home

Fonte: Sing You Home

„I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.“

—  Jodi Picoult

„Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.“

—  Jodi Picoult

„You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Fonte: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

„You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.“

—  Jodi Picoult

Fonte: Mercy (1996)