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Jodi Sperling

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JODI PICOULT (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
JODI PICOULT The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at leas...
JODI PICOULT Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usua...
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JODI PICOULT If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...
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JODI PICOULT Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
JODI PICOULT if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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JODI MEADOWS It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
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JODI PICOULT When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
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JODI PICOULT Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
JODI PICOULT I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrif...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...
JODI PICOULT See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
JODI BENSON Lisa called me here in Alabama and told me about this. And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesbur...
JODI COLLINS What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
JODI PICOULT Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ...
JODI PICOULT I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giv...
JODI PICOULT I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light.
JODI LIVON You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
JODI PICOULT Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he...
JODI PICOULT Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and j...
JODI PICOULT Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make...
JODI PICOULT I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what t...
JODI PICOULT I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always unde...
JODI PICOULT When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
JODI PICOULT That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how muc...
JODI PICOULT Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
JODI PICOULT If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones...
JODI PICOULT We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....
JODI PICOULT It's choice that makes us human.
JODI PICOULT What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha...
JODI PICOULT When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the...
JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
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