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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

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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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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
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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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There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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Everyone still deserves to have their say.
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?
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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
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