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don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.
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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds they cut straight to the bone.
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the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
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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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What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.
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At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.
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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.
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She had loved him. He knew this he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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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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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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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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I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.
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What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
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Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
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They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?
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Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
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I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
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