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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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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
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I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.
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But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.
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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.
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When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
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Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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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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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.
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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
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Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
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Yes, she is. He looks at me, his face carved in pain. She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming. My eyes fill up with tears. But I love her, I say, because that is reason enough.
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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
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