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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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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
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Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
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Life can change in an instant don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
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What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.
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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.
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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
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Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
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