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Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
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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Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.
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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal he'd rock back and forth he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.
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remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.
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Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.
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There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
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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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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
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If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.
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Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
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The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.
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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
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Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
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When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
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Dylan Jerome, the lawyer admits, wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
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She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
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