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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Usually
Lose
Loses
Nothing
Desperate
Succeed

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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.
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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.
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I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.
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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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