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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Bones
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Dead
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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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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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Every day a question mark.
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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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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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If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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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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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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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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