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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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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 watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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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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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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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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In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
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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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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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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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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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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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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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