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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Reality
Inverse
Proportions
Proportion
Lying
Hope

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don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
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You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
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Everyone still deserves to have their say.
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Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.
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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.
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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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Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.
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I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.
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You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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Just so you know, when they say once upon a time....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.
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Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.
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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
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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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For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need that works for me as a writer.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
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