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Alice Sebold Inspirational Quotes (130)

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The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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People grow up by living.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
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