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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Quickly
Conditions
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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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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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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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 missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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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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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
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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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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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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 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 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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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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Nothing is ever certain.
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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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