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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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I wish you all a long and happy life
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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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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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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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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.
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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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