Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes (2007)

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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

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The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

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Listen, she said. I may not be what you want right now, but I'm all you've got.

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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

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What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

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Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

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What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

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