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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Salmon
Jack
Fell
Away
Love

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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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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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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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No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
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There was one thing my murderer didn't understand he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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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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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 no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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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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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
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So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
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