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This is not about catching people, but about preventing problems and making sure the dollars we allocate go to kids and education.


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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.
JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do...
JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i...
JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ...
JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
JODI PICOULT You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y...
JODI PICOULT It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
JODI PICOULT How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...
JODI PICOULT I know you love me. The question is, how much?
JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...
JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a...
JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...
JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul...
JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...
JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?"

We...
JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice
JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't...
JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
JODI PICOULT Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House ag...
JODI KANTOR One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every da...
JODI KANTOR The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...
JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack.

There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru...
JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin...
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