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To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
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You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.
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When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
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True love can break the most powerful curse
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On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
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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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anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
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When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.
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But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.
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I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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She had loved him. He knew this he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
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if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
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Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy
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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
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