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...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

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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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
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There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
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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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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
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Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.
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She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
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I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
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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.
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you never forget your first fall.
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I found plain truth very interesting.
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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
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sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
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I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
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