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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.
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The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.
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By definition, love made you better than good enough it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.
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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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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.
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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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Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
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You don't make a friend, Jacob said with a scowl. It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.
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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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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
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I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
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Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
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Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass other times, it made her cry a river.
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