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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
Intuition
Began
Powerful
Father
Mother
Singh
Salmon
Jack
Suspicion

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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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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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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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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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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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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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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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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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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 fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
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