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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
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I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
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What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
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