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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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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Inverse
Proportions
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Lying
Hope
Reality

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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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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
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The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
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To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
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