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Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.
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Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them. Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. Maybe you've got that backward, he said. Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
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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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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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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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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.
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