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We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Jodi Picoult

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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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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
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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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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal he'd rock back and forth he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.
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But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds they cut straight to the bone.
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A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.
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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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Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
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love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
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