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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.
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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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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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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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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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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
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In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
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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 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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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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