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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
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Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
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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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...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?
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I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.
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But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
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I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
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There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.
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Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
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anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
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remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
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What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
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I only just found you, I can't lose you now
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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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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