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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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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Waste
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High
School
Home
Anything
Life

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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
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don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
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The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
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What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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The truth doesn't always set you free people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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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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You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.
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I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.
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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
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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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