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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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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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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 living deserve attention, too
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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 loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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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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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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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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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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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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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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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Do you miss Susie? Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. More than anyone will ever know.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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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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I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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