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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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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Someone
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Teenager
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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
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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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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
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The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
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Polar north can't get away from a magnet the magnet finds it, no matter what.
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Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.
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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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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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Only the liar knows he's lying
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?
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Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed
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Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
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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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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.
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