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No one gets to start where they left off it just doesn't work that way.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
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Be kind to others before you take care of yourself make whoever you're with feel like they matter.
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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
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Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.
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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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Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
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Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based others red some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder no two held up side by side will ever quite match.
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My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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