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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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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.
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...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.
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I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
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Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.
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a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.
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The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.
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If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
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She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.” “You are to me,” I say.
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.
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Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.
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Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.
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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
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How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
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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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if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
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Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
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