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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

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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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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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
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I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
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She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
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I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page you can't edit a blank page.
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What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
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What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?
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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.
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I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
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I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.
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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
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