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

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Wisconsin
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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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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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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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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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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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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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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