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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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Wisconsin
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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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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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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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The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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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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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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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
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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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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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Nothing is ever certain.
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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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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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