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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Kissing
Side
Sides
Life
Kiss

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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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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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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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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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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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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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Every day a question mark.
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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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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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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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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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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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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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