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Things don't always look as they seem.

Jodi Picoult

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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 don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
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Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.
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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.
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It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.
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Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
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I found plain truth very interesting.
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You can't pay a landlord in dogma.
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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
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I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
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Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
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There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
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