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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
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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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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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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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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
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The living deserve attention, too
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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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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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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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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