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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
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Men

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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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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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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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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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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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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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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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Nothing is ever certain.
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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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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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