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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Loss
Beauty
Woman
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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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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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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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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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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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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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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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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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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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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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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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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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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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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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