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How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

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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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be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
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Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
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Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.
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Who spit in your porridge?
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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
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When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.
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The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
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Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.
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the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
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I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
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The truth doesn't always set you free people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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