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Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Novel
Inside
Many
People

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Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
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When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.
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I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.
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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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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
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It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.
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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
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All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
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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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But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
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In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
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It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
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