Those with four or more electronic devices in their bedroom were twice as likely to fall asleep in school.


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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.
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