Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

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

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

But true character showed when you could find something to love in a child everyone else hated.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

Happiness wasn’t just what you reported; it was also how you chose to remember.

If everyone else’s opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

Could you hate your son for what he had done, and still love him for who he had been?

Food for thought

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE

Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it.