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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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Worth
Dead
Alive

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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
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When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients nurses broke it down.
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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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What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
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I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
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The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
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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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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
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