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I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
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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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When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
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Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.
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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
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