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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.

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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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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!
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When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.
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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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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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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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I found plain truth very interesting.
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I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
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No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.
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I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do.
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
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