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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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I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
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I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
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You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
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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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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore
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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
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I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
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People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
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I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
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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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