“The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.”

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult - “The reason I am still sitting at Josef's...” 1

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