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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Love
Bigger
Hole
Inside
Desperate
Whether
Holes
Form
Revenge
Power
Fill
Wells
Hunger
Well
Forms
Different
Became
Sought

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