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Quotes from Nineteen Minutes — Jodi Picoult

born 1966 United States

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9 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jodi Picoult (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.