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The living deserve attention, too

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Deserve
Attention
Living

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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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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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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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You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
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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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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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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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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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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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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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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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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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