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  1. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled."
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  2. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    If you knew what those {pork rinds} did to your body, you wouldn't eat them.''If you knew when the last time I ate was, you wouldn't bother me.
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  3. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've gotten past my own selfishness to where I've got to help her. See, when you're Plain, you don't put yourself forward. You just don't do it, because that would be Hochmut–puffing yourself up–and the truth is there's always others more important than you. So Katie, when she hears others telling lies about her and this baby, she won't want to fight back, or stand up for herself. I am here to stand up for her.
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  4. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    You can't create life in a place that's dying by degrees.
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  5. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.''I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.
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  7. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a pillow and strong enough to move heaven and earth.
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    ...I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.
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  9. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group.
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  10. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.
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  12. Jodi Picoult _ Plain Truth

    You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
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