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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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if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
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Lie to yourself until it's true.
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she told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.
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There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.
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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
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I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time.-Amelia
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss
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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.
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i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.
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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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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.
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