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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
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Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.
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The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.
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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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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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