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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Thinking
Left
Onto
Human
Edge
Humans
Edges
Sometimes
Pick
Heart
Picks
Shelf
Much
Pieces
Pile
Something
Simple
Shelves
Think
Fall
Falls

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