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When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

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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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Memories
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I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.
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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?
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Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.
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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
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Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
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By definition, love made you better than good enough it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.
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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
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What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
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There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.
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There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.
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Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?
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