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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
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.
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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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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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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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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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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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Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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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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