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It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
May
Cusp
Find
Deserves
Right
Deserve
Becoming
Wants
Chance
Girl
Someone

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There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.
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the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
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Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
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What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
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And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
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What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
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Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
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Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.
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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
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Does fate ever play by the rules?
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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