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To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

Jodi Picoult

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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 signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.
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You don't love someone because they're perfect, she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. I don't know how to respond to that it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.
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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
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it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
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I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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