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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
Murderers
Murderer
Frightening
Monsters
Thing
Men

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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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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. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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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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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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