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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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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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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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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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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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