Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Quotes

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

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?

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

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.

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.

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

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

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

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.