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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
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 wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
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I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away.
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.
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Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
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On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.
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Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.
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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 think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
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True love can break the most powerful curse
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If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.
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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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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.
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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.
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I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.
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