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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.

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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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Smile
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Completely
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Confused

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I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
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Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
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How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
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Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.
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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are we just don't necessarily want them to be there
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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients nurses broke it down.
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Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based others red some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder no two held up side by side will ever quite match.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
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