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Jodi Lynn Picoult (; born 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels and short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.

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Love makes life a little brighter.

—Jodi Picoult in Between the Lines

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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime.

—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale

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How do you tell someone you're sorry for ruining their life?

—Jodi Picoult in Salem Falls

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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, I think you have to take them back.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

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They were at different places in the same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

—Jodi Picoult in The Tenth Circle

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That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

—Jodi Picoult in Handle With Care

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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

—Jodi Picoult in Handle With Care

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When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.

—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale

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Who I am and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

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