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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.
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On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.
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I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
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I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
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If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
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When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.
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There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
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