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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Lying
Fabric
Stain
Hope
Walls
Proportions
Reality
Proportion
Spreads
Never
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Spread
Excuses
Wall
Woven
Inside
Hospital
Doubt
Hospitals
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