23 quotes
The enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
How could you change a boy’s bedding every week and feed him breakfast and drive him to the orthodontist and not know him at all?
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.
I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.
It struck Lacy that she didn’t really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing.
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
Either Josie was someone she didn’t want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Newborns reminded her of tiny Buddhas, faces full of divinity […] That holiness, somehow, disappeared, and Lacy was always left wondering where in this world it might go.
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.
Picture Perfect (1995)
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?
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
WE ARE ALL, I SUPPOSE, beholden to our parents—the question is, how much?
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
The Storyteller (2013)
For a moment Laura hesitated outside the door, wondering how she could have been naïve enough to believe this horrible thing had happened to Trixie, when in truth it had happened to all three of them.
The Tenth Circle (2006)
Did everyone in jail think they were innocent? All this time Peter had spent lying on the bench, convincing himself that he was nothing like anyone else in the Grafton County Jail—and as it turned out, that was a lie.
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
I was terrified of that ghost just like they were, but I never let anyone know it. That way, I knew they might call me a lot of awful names ... but one of them wasn't coward.
The Tenth Circle (2006)
Logan Rourke wasn’t her father, not any more than the guy who’d taken their coins at the toll booth or any other stranger. You could share DNA with someone and still have nothing in common with them
Nineteen Minutes (2007)