Jodi Picoult

發現一位與我完全不相干的作家，卻比曾經誤以為是好友的人對我的處境有更深刻的理解、更大的支持、更多的關懷，真是一件相當悲哀的事。

別人才過大生日

附身

心裡難過的時候，離喜歡的物品遠一點。否則，那樣物品就此沾染上哀戚的氣息，以後看見喜歡的東西，甚至都會感到悲傷了。

給那些虔誠的教徒

吹澎澎

1、站在鋪好毛巾的小茶几
2、一直吹一直吹
3、中場休息：上上廁所、跑一跑、咬衛生紙跑一跑
4、繼續吹到乾
5、整理環境：重點工作是從牙刷身上吹下來飄散各處的毛
6、累了---休息

Dyson陪我玩

幫牙刷洗香香、吹澎澎後，照例一定要搬出Dyson全家吸一遍，否則整個客廳會都是狗毛到處飛。

吸地的時候，刷刷通常都躺在沙發上休息（總是，勞動都是別人，累得都是她大小姐），但今天她卻突然從沙發上一躍而起，像子彈般射出奔到廁所門口。原來是Dyson吸頭碰到牙刷的球，不小心把球用力推了出去。

牙刷把球撿回來之後，咬著球堅持把它“嘟”給Dyson吸頭，被迫停下來看她無聊舉動的媽媽，真是覺得好氣又好笑。

我還經常跟朋友誇口說牙刷有多聰明咧......

EMMA

p.34   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER III〕
She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.

p.62   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER V〕
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

p.66   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER V〕
Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied it.


p.160   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XI〕
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

p.238   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVI〕
Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind. The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it.

p.258   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVIII〕
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.


p.260   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVIII〕
If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

p.308   〔VOLUME 2,  CHAPTER III〕
one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand. One takes up a notion, and runs away with it.

p.354   〔VOLUME 2,  CHAPTER VI〕
I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.

p.564   〔VOLUME 3,  CHAPTER II〕
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

p.712   〔VOLUME 3,  CHAPTER X〕

If a woman can ever be excused for thinking only of herself, it is a situation like Jane Fairfax's.-Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.'