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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

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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 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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Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
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So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.
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For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need that works for me as a writer.
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The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
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The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
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I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.
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I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.
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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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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
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She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you, you said with a shrug. All you have to do is say my name and I know. ...Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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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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