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An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
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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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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I think many of my books, including Handle with Care, including My Sister's Keeper circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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You don't make a friend, Jacob said with a scowl. It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.
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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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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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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
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You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
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Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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