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They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
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I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.
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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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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
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Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
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How far can a person go... and still live with himself.
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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
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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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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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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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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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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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The truth doesn't always set you free people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.
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i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
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There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
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I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
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The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.
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