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Nothing is ever certain.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Death
Certain
Ever
Nothing

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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.
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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
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I wish you all a long and happy life
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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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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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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 think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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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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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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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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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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