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After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

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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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Yes, she is. He looks at me, his face carved in pain. She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming. My eyes fill up with tears. But I love her, I say, because that is reason enough.
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Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
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You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
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It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.
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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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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
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Things don't always look as they seem.
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