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i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Dead
Alive
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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The question I hate the most is How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously! I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??
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I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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We Pisces, we're a special breed.
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When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
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Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
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I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
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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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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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