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

Jodi Picoult

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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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I think my writing has become cleaner.
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I think many of my books, including Handle with Care, including My Sister's Keeper circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.
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You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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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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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
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You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.
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Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.
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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
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On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald
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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.
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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
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You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
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Love makes life a little brighter
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