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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

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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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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?
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think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.
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No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
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I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
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The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.
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