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Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
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“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?”
“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
“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?”
“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”
“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.”
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”
“When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like. ”
“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
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Book Keywords:
happiness, death, love, chinese-proverb, self-image, possessiveness, advice, adoration, growing-up, expectations, inspirational, image, heart, mathematical, revenge
