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I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
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Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
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You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
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How far can a person go... and still live with himself.
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Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.
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Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?
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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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Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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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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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
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People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.
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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
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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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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
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I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after. If anyone ever did, it's us.
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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.
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