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The Storyteller

Name: The Storyteller
Author: Jodi Picoult

The Storyteller is the twentieth novel written by the author Jodi Picoult.

“Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”

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“Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”

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The Story Teller ISBN: 978-1-4767-2783-7 (2013)
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“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”

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“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

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“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

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“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”

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“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”

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“It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that thereno black or white. There are gradations of gray.”

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

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“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”

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“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

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“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

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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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“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

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“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”

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“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”

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“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

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“It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.”

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“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”

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“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

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