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161 " matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. "
― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes
162 " The thing that’s important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently. "
163 " I wouldn't know what being in love felt like if it hit me in the face "
164 " What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear? "
165 " Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart. "
166 " Kai gimė vaikai ir Luisas jautėsi toks kone absurdiškai laimingas, kad tragedija regėjosi tiesiog neišvengiama, jis žaisdavo mintyse tokį žaidimą. Gulėdavo lovoje ir prisiversdavo pasirinkti, ko pirmiausia sutiktų netekti: santuokos, darbo, kurio nors vaiko. Jam buvo įdomu, kiek žmogus galėtų pakelti, kol virstų nuliu. "
167 " The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.” Ann "
168 " Jei atiduodi kam nors savo širdį, o tie žmonės miršta, ar jie nusineša ją su savim? Ar likusią amžinybės dalį praleidi su kiauryme, kurios neįmanoma užpildyti? "
169 " Motinystė nuspalvino Leisės gyvenimą ryškesnėmis spalvomis; ji netilpdavo savam kaily nuo suvokimo, kad jos gyvenimas nė negalėtų būti sklidinesnis. Nesuprasdavo anuomet, kad kai tavo vizija esti tokia ryški ir tikroviška, gali ja susižeisti. Kad tik patyrusi tokią pilnatvę gali iki galo suprasti, kaip skauda jausti tuštumą. "
170 " Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. "
171 " Saugumas-tik miražas; vargu ar turi reikšmės, kad esi pririštas, jei kitas lyno galas atsirišo. "
172 " She had nothing left inside. She’d given it all to her son. And that was the greatest heartbreak of all—no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. "
173 " And then come September, they fell back in step as if they'd never missed a beat. That, Peter figured, was the very definition of a best friend. "
174 " No se puede luchar contra la injusticia del destino. Lo único que se puede hacer es sufrirla y esperar un mañana diferente. "
175 " Don’t blame yourself; this isn’t your fault, "
176 " There was the finest line between unique and odd, "
177 " Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn’t even know existed. "
178 " 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? "
179 " 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 "
180 " Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead. "