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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
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How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
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Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
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a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.
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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
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No one gets to start where they left off it just doesn't work that way.
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And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
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Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.
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Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
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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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I can give or take elephants I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.
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