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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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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I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
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She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.
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Love makes life a little brighter
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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
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The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.
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Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere
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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
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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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The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.
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You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.
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You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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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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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.
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Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
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sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.
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