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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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The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
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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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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)
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Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
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What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.
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People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
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I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients nurses broke it down.
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
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I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!
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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
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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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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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