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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

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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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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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I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck
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The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
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When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.
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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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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal he'd rock back and forth he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.
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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
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Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.
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in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.
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Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.
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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds they cut straight to the bone.
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To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
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