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I left my mark on that man.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
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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 was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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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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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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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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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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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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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
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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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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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