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Jodi Picoult

"Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back."

Source : Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

Jodi Picoult

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“By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.”
“It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.”
“More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.”
“WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THATâ€™S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.”

Source : "On Abortion, Rape, and Humor" by Amanda Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2009.
“Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]”
“Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”
“Angelina Jolie is my favorite. I've never met her before, but I just know she's amazing.”

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