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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Swagger
Men

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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
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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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You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.
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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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Does fate ever play by the rules?
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.
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How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
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Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
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The question I hate the most is How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously! I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
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The damage was permanent there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
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Lie to yourself until it's true.
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I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.
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