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I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after. If anyone ever did, it's us.
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
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I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
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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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