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It takes two people to make a friendship work
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.
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But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
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My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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Yes, she is. He looks at me, his face carved in pain. She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming. My eyes fill up with tears. But I love her, I say, because that is reason enough.
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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
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I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time.-Amelia
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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.
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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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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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