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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

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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 am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
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They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
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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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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.
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maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise a potential.
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle
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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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History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.
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