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Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

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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I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.
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Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.
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What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.
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Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.
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When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
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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 you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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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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Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?
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I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.
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How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
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I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.
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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.
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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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I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
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if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
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