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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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What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?
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I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.
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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
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be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
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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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I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.
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As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.
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Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror? - That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
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Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
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I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
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Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
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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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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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She felt a cage coming down around her too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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