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I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.
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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.
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I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
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Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
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Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
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In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
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Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
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Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?
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