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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
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Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.
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I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.
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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
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Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.
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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
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Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.
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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
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I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
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Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
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