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Lie to yourself until it's true.

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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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn color your hair watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world or you can just jump off it.
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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
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Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
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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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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
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Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
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You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
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Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
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Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
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The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
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I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
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I think that different things sell in different countries.
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I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.
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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.
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I think many of my books, including Handle with Care, including My Sister's Keeper circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
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Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.
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I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
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