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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

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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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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.
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But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
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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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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
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I know you love me. The question is, how much?
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Polar north can't get away from a magnet the magnet finds it, no matter what.
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I think that different things sell in different countries.
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How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
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do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
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