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Jodi Picoult shows that people can change when they have space to grow. She explores how crowds can feel lonely, and how even kind people may commit terrible acts. She also reflects on how memory and identity shape us and how truth may clash with what people want to hear.

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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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“Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.”

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Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

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It takes two people to make a friendship work

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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

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A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

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What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

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He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

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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…

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I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers?…

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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…

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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between…

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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

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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…

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There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet.…

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Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder…

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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…

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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you…

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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…

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“You don’t make peace only with God. You make it with people. Sin isn’t global. It’s personal. If you do wrong to…

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What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll…

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I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about…

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Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction,…

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You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person…

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Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your…

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It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What…

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You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really…

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I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go…

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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses,…

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I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall…

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Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

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God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

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Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

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“People are never who they seem to be”

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People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

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Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

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“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.…

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

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My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.