nineteen minutes by jodi picoult

T H E P A S S I V E V O I C E

T H E P A S S I V E V O I C E

L a p a s i v a i n g l e s a s e u s a m á s q u e e n e s p a ñ o l , y a q u e n o s o t r o s c o n t a m o s c o n r e c u r s o s l i n g ü í s t i c o s

c o m o e l s u j e t o o m i t i d o o e l u s o d e “ s e ” q u e n o s p e r m i t e n n o m e n c i o n a r a l a g e n t e d e l a a c c i ó n

v e r b a l :

“ S e v e n d e n l i b r o s a q u í ” –

“ B o o k s a r e s o l d h e r e ”

“ A s u p a d r e l o m a t a r o n e n l a g u e r r a ” -

“ H i s f a t h e r w a s k i l l e d i n t h e w a r ”

...a mathematical formula for happiness:R/E, or

Reality divided by Expectations.

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

expectations

Four-eyes; blind as a bat.Four-eyes; Four-eyes; blind as ablind as a

bat.bat.

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?

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?

Old habits die hard.

If you hope, get ready for

a disappointment.

She wasn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

“I couldn't make myself small enough

to fit into the space he wanted me to fit into, in order to be part of

his life. Does this make sense?”

Taking credit for what a child did well also meant accepting responsibility for what they

did wrong.

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When you love someone, there's a pattern to the way you come together....It's a routine, but not in the boring sense of the word.It's just the way you've learned to fit, and it's why, when you've been with one guy for a long time, tour teeth do n not scrape together when you kiss; you do not bump noses or elbows.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves:

One for your enemy,And one for yourself.

-Chinese proverb.

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There were some memories, she knew, you could run from forever and never shake

The geeks in one corner, the jocks in another

She had enough on her

plate.

The kind of gift you had to take out of its box every now and then, hold aloft, marvel at, so you didn't forget that it was still in your possession.

You can't fast-forward your child's

life, no matter how much you want to.

Every one thinks you make mistakes when

you're young,...but I don't think we

make any fewer when we're grown up