What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too…

Jodi Picoult
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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. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2013). The Storyteller, p.357, Simon and Schuster
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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. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2013). The Storyteller, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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