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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
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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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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People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.
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Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?
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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
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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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