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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
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maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise a potential.
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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
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What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?
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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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I think my writing has become cleaner.
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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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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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the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
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To me, a good event is governed by the audience.
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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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You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
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