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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

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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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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?
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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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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
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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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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.
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The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.
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Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.
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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
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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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In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.
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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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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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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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