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Jodi Picoult

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GEORGE ELIOT A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
ENGLISH PROVERB Its funny, how we run away from sickness. Sickness should run away from us.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Do you run away or toward?
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JOYCE CARY Do you want to marry him?" Peter stopped in front of her, pressing close.
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MARILYN BARNICKE BELLEGHEM Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
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MARY BALOGH Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.
SINCLAIR LEWIS I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear,...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. A...
DALE ARCHER Reality can run away with itself when driven by unruly external forces.
STEVEN REDHEAD If you run away from problems, they will run after you. If you face up to them, they will run away f...
MUHAMMED HAIDER I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
CARLOS MESA Changing your location doesn’t necessarily mean losing your problems. They’ll show up wherever y...
K.K. HENDIN Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
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NORMAN REEDUS Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habit...
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MELISSA HILL I musn't run away.
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LAURA SCHLESSINGER The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how s...
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VALAIDA FULLWOOD No problem is too big to run away from.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ To run away is not glorious, but very healthy
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DAN BARKER That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
AMOR TOWLES Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.
SPIRITED AWAY Most ordinary politicians run quickly away from it.
JAMIN RASKIN Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
JAMES CARVILLE There is nothing to suggest he tries to run away.
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STEVEN ERIKSON Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
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STEVE GLEASON There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
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DEL SHANNON We punched it out pretty quick with a nice run. Give Simon Kenton credit though, they just kept chip...
GARY FORREST He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SOCRATES The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ...
EUGENE H. PETERSON I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
URSULA ANDRESS All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
JOAN CHEN He (life) got to his feet with a sudden jerk,
collected his blanket
and then darted away...
SUMAN POKHREL Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
TWYLA THARP Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
URSULA ANDRESS If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.
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C. JOYBELL C. We're not just going to give this away and run out of town with our tail between our legs.
MARK SPANO When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let hi...
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LIU RUN When we run away from something.
We're usually running away from ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.
SARAH J. MAAS The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from...
TERRY PRATCHETT We didn't run away from our work,
AL SEARS Do not apply -- run, don't walk, away!
DAVID LEE I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way...
NADIA COMANECI Oh, get off it with that. So sensitive about language. Mate, love, nest, whatever. Point is, it stin...
JACKSON LANZING I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyon...
DWAYNE JOHNSON I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the secon...
ANDY JOHNSON I knew he would play. He's a competitor. That's why he's going to run away with the rookie of the ye...
FLIP SAUNDERS Let's run away."
"To where?"
"Alaska."
"What's in Alaska?"
"No clue," I whisp...
CECILY WHITE We could run away. We could fight, or we could cut our losses and let the world know what Subway was...
SETH COHEN Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE Real cowboys never run, they just ride away.
COWBOY PROVERB You're not gonna run away from anybody. I thought it was a great game.
MARK LINDO ...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
E.L. KONIGSBURG What you can't run away from, you have to face
LILITH SAINTCROW When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only...
NADIA COMANECI For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Don't run away from reality. Walk, and enj0y the view. It could be breathtaking.
JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN He gets away with it because he's strong.'
'This is the story of mankind.'
'I thought you ...
CHRISTOPHER BUEHLMAN There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS I'm nothing, a mere shadow of all your failures, trying to run away.
ROGER FLORES By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from t...
JOHN ATKINS Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR "Know thyself"? If I knew myself I'd run away
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JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m...
JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...
JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...
JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ...
JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s...
JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...
JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...
JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y...
JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti...
JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee...
JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?
JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ...
JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of (
JODI PICOULT When you read the art,
JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.
JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w...
JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa...
JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th...
JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e...
JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth.
JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l...
JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug...
JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D...
JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...
JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...
JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...
JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon...
JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al...
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