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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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As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.
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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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I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
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love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
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I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.
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I think many of my books, including Handle with Care, including My Sister's Keeper circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
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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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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
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Be kind to others before you take care of yourself make whoever you're with feel like they matter.
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Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.
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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.
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It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
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I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.
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You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
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