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There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
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If it's us, she whispered, how come you get to decide? When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
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In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
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if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
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She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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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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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
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When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.
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Does fate ever play by the rules?
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How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
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