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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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If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?
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Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
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I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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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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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.
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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
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I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
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This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
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Polar north can't get away from a magnet the magnet finds it, no matter what.
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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you, you said with a shrug. All you have to do is say my name and I know. ...Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.
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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
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I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
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