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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.
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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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We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.
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Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle
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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
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If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
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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 think many of my books, including Handle with Care, including My Sister's Keeper circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
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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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As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
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I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
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What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
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I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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