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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

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
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There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
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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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I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.
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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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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.
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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
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The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
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