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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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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore
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Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
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I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.
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Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.
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In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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I only just found you, I can't lose you now
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When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere
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Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass other times, it made her cry a river.
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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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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
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Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.
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You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.
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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
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