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Be kind to others before you take care of yourself make whoever you're with feel like they matter.
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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The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
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The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
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