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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.
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Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.
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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.
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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.
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And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror? - That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?
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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
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