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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
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Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
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Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.
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I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
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