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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.
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I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.
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The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
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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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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
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Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn color your hair watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world or you can just jump off it.
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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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Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.
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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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Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.
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Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy
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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.
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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
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