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I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

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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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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
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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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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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In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.
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the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
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I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
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Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.
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