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I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Jodi Picoult

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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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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
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I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.
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The damage was permanent there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
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I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
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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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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.
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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after. If anyone ever did, it's us.
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No child really chooses his religion it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
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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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