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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Frightening
Monsters
Thing
Men
Murderers
Murderer

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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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