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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Wisconsin
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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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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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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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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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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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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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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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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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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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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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I left my mark on that man.
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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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