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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever
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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There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.
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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.
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At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)
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The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.
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She felt a cage coming down around her too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.
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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
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