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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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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
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The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
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I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!
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I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.
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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
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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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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
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You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
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