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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
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
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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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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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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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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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The living deserve attention, too
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Nothing is ever certain.
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
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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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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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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
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