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Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Ham

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“You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Sadness

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Positivity, Balance

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Reality, Expectations, Desire

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Look at the Brightside, Optimistic

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Others, Love

“You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Drowning, Problems, Challenges, Sadness, Pain

“I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the b…”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“Happiness is what you choose to remember.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

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“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.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

“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?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Disappointment, Happiness, Expectations