The thing that most people didn't understand.. Was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.
Jodi Picoult
As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
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Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
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Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
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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 know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
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I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
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