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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
Living
Done
Things
Bones
Asked
Dead

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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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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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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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Every day a question mark.
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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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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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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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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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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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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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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
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I left my mark on that man.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.
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