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Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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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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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.
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Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away.
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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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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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
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Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
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I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!
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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
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Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?
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Life can change in an instant.
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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
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I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
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