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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
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Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
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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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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.
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I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.
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Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
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I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.
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But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
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The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.
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Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
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It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.
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They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
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