Significant Quotes
"One day, Peter, everyone's going to know your name."
"We live in a country where American kids are dying because we're sending them over seas to kill people for oil. But when one sad, distraught child doesn't see the beauty in life goes and wrongly acts on his rage by shooting up a school, people start pointing a finger at heavy metal music. The problem isn't with the rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself ."
"If you give 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 can’t be filled?”
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
"This girl, just like his goddaughter and her brother and a million other kids in this country, had gotten up today and gone to school never imagining she would be in danger.”
“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
"We live in a country where American kids are dying because we're sending them over seas to kill people for oil. But when one sad, distraught child doesn't see the beauty in life goes and wrongly acts on his rage by shooting up a school, people start pointing a finger at heavy metal music. The problem isn't with the rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself ."
"If you give 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 can’t be filled?”
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
"This girl, just like his goddaughter and her brother and a million other kids in this country, had gotten up today and gone to school never imagining she would be in danger.”
“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes: A Novel. New York: Atria, 2007. Print.