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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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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
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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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Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck
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I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
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You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.
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To me, a good event is governed by the audience.
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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
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Things don't always look as they seem.
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Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
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Yes, she is. He looks at me, his face carved in pain. She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming. My eyes fill up with tears. But I love her, I say, because that is reason enough.
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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
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A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.
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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
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People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
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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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Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?
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