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“All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls

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The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls

This collection brings together three of Jodi Picoult's novels, each exploring complex themes and characters. 'Songs of the Humpback Whale' delves into the lives of a family affected by a tragic accident. 'Plain Truth' follows a group of women whose lives intersect in a profound way. 'Salem Falls' is a gripping tale of a small town's dark secrets. more

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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive of the ends for which government has been established. This principle, in the Declaration of Independence, suggests that true patriotism lies in supporting the values the country is supposed to cherish: equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. When our government compromises, undermines, or attacks those values, it is being unpatriotic.”

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.”

Thinking Said Ghost

Book:Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.”

Country Boys Georgia Country Boy

Author:Jason Aldean

“Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.”

Humans Looks Kind Matter Facts Stories School Too Much Taught University Dogma Towers Human History Faerie Ivory Ivory Tower

Author:Graham Hancock

“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”

Alive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

Young Grows Bird Wings Purity Regions Far Away Unbearable

Book:The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence

Source: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence

“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.”