# Quote — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

> “My daughter won’t go to school this year until eleven o’clock, because she can’t handle being there when third period starts,” the woman said. “Everything scares her. This has ruined her whole life; why should Peter Houghton’s punishment be any less?”

- Author: [Jodi Picoult](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult.md)
- Book: [Nineteen Minutes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/nineteen-minutes.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/nineteen-minutes/my-daughter-wont

## More from this book

> Did everyone in jail think they were innocent? All this time Peter had spent lying on the bench, convincing himself that he was nothing like anyone else in the Grafton County Jail—and as it turned out, that was a lie.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/nineteen-minutes/did-everyone-in-jail.md)

> The enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/nineteen-minutes/the-enemy-was.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/nineteen-minutes/when-you-begin.md)