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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Kissing
Afraid
Almost
Stories
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Susie
Still
Salmon
Wanted
Collected
Might
Kiss

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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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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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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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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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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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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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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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.
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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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