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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Around
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Remember
Still
Long
Something
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I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
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The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
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She felt a cage coming down around her too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
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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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Dylan Jerome, the lawyer admits, wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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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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I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.
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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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It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.
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Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.
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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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No one gets to start where they left off it just doesn't work that way.
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the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
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Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?
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Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
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