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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
Jodi Picoult
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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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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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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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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
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I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page you can't edit a blank page.
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Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?
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The truth doesn't always set you free people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
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I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
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He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.
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You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
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And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
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