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I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away.
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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
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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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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.
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A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.
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When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
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I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.
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