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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Men
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
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I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do.
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if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
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What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
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Lie to yourself until it's true.
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A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.
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But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
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But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
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Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.
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Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.
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I think my writing has become cleaner.
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I think that different things sell in different countries.
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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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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
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