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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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Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.
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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
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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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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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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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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
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You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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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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Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.
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I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.
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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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Just so you know, when they say once upon a time....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.
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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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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.
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