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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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She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
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Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
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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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There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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