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Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.
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Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck
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Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.
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I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.
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It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.
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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.
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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
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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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Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.
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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.
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Just so you know, when they say once upon a time....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.
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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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Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
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A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.
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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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Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.
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After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.
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