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There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

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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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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you, you said with a shrug. All you have to do is say my name and I know. ...Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
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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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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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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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They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
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