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“If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.”

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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

“We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.”

Knows Littles I Can Shows Might Minutes Skills Jokes Lunch Fifteen Naps Better Now Mags

Author:Suzanne Collins

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”

Ifs Believe Stills War Courses I Believe Easy Anti War Favourite Glaciers

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel”

Whole Guy Love Is Novel Wife Angel Blue Blind Rage Jane Pissed Off Attics Payoff Angela Argo

Author:Francine Prose

“THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.”

Years Long Values Hurt Poor Keys Fool Financial Gentle Bubbles Predictable Headlines Corrections Bursting Financial Markets Contractions Letdowns Leakage

Book:The Corrections: A Novel

Source: The Corrections: A Novel

“He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?”

Knows World Want Wells Stills Wanted Interest Half Know How Love You Poet Destruction Universal Tragedy Novelists Defiance Personal Tragedy

Book:P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness

Source: P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness

“great books are the ones we need”

Needs Book Great Book

Book:The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.”

Trying Children Sometimes Parent Pieces Claims Your Children Finding Yourself

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

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