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

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.
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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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I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
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Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
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I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.
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...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.
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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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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
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Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
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Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?
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Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
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Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
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I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.
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They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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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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Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.
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