I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up… - Jodi Picoult

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I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

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Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is an American author.

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