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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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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
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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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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
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Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds they cut straight to the bone.
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.
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The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
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Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.
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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
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I think that different things sell in different countries.
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.
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Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.
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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
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