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sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Bigs
Feelings
Enough
Sometimes
Trying
Pour
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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
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I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.
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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.
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The truth doesn't always set you free people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
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