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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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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Who spit in your porridge?
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We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.
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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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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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I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it you can patch it smooth and clear but you always know what's hidden underneath.
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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.
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You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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I can give or take elephants I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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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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The damage was permanent there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
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Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based others red some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder no two held up side by side will ever quite match.
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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
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People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
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