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Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

What made you happy once might not make you happy now.

—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes

About Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Lynn Picoult ( PEE-koh; born 1966) is an American writer. As of 2026, Picoult has published 30 novels, several 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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