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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

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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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I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!
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I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.
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What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
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I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.
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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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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
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Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.
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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise a potential.
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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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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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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
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But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much
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We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
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