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

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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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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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
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I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it you can patch it smooth and clear but you always know what's hidden underneath.
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
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The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.
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When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.
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something is always falling apart in me.
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In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
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When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.
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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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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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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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To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
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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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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
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