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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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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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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
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In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.
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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
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I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.
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This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
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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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Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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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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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
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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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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients nurses broke it down.
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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
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What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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