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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Began
Powerful
Father
Mother
Singh
Salmon
Jack
Suspicion
Intuition

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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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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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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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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 sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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The living deserve attention, too
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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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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
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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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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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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.
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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
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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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