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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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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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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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The living deserve attention, too
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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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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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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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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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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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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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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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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