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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
Author
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
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Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.
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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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What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
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When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
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She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.
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The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.
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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
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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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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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