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Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.
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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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
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I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.
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