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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
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But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.
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But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.
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I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
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When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
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You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
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Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.
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Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
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Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
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Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed
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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
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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 music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
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Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.
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