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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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anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.
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No one gets to start where they left off it just doesn't work that way.
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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
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