Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, inst…

Jodi Picoult
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2009). Handle with Care: A Novel, p.262, Simon and Schuster
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