The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words …

Jodi Picoult
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2013). The Storyteller, p.357, Simon and Schuster
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