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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

Jodi Picoult

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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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Devil

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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
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Things don't always look as they seem.
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What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.
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The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
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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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There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
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It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
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How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.
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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
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Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.
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