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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Bones
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Dead
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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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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 think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.
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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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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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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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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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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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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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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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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 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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