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What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.
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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On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald
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I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.
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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
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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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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
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You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
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